Digital Symposium Collection 2000

Active COM: An Inter-Working Framework for CORBA and DCOM J. Daniel, B. Traverson, and V. Vallee   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Track II: Interoperability Abstract DCOM ( Distributed Component Object Model ) and CORBA ( Common Object Request Broker Architecture ) are two major solutions to develop distributed applications. Each of them uses its own functionality, for instance the communication protocols : ORPC (Object Remote Procedure Call) in case of DCOM and IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) for CORBA. That is why a DCOM client cannot co-operate with a CORBA server without a gateway. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach to allow generic inter-working between these environments without gateways. Actually, we present a model called « Active COM » which provides native inter-working between CORBA and DCOM. Copyright(C) 2000 ACM