分布式计算原理与应用DistributedComputing第十章课件.ppt

Distributed Computing, M. L. Liu The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) M. L. Liu CORBA The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard architecture for a distributed objects system. CORBA is designed to allow distributed objects to interoperate in a heterogenous environment, where objects can be implemented in different programming language and/or deployed on different platforms CORBA vs. Java RMI CORBA differs from the architecture of Java RMI in one significant aspect: RMI is a proprietary facility developed by Sun MicroSystems, Inc., and supports objects written in the Java programming langugage only. CORBA is an architecture that was developed by the Object Management Group (OMG), an industrial consortium. CORBA CORBA is not in inself a distributed objects facility; instead, it is a set of protocols. A distributed object facility which adhere to these protocols is said to be CORBA-compliant, and the distributed objects that the facility support can interoperate with objects supported by other CORBA-compliant facilities. CORBA is a very rich set of protocols. We will instead focus on the key concepts of CORBA related to the distributed objects paradigm. We will also study a facility based on CORBA: the Java IDL. The Basic Architecture CORBA Object Interface A distributed object is defined using a software file similar to the remote interface file in Java RMI. Since CORBA is language independent, the interface is defined using a universal language with a distinct syntax, known as the CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL). The syntax of CORBA IDL is similar to Java and C++. However, object defined in a CORBA IDL file can be implemented in a large number of diverse programming languages, including C, C++, Java, COBOL, Smalltalk, Ada, Lisp, Python, and IDLScript. For each of these languages, OMG has a standardized mapping from CORBA IDL to the programming language, so that a compiler can be used to pro