Today's decentralized, distributed environment for exchange of information
can be confusing at times, but for the most part you can still encounter
standardized, globally accepted technologies. Each of these technologies
serves its respective domain well. But when the question of how data can be
exchanged between these technologies arises, you face a lot of difficulties.
For instance, CORBA achieves interoperability between languages, hardware
platforms, and operating systems quite well. But when it comes to the
Internet, it's a bit more complicated to implement a CORBA-based system. Thus
almost every technology has its pros and cons.
Interoperability Between Languages
This article focuses on the CORBA Web interface - keeping in mind the
interoperability issue and how to make it work on the Internet. When we
consider the hardware platform, some processors store the da... (more)