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CORBA application structure Application structure Application objects. Standard objects, defined by the OMG, for a specific domain e.g. insurance. Fundamental CORBA services such as directories and security management. Horizontal (i.e. cutting across applications) facilities such as user interface facilities. CORBA standards An object model for application objects A CORBA object is an encapsulation of state with a well-defined, language-neutral （中立的）interface defined in an IDL (interface definition language). An object request broker that manages requests for object services. A set of general object services of use to many distributed applications. A set of common components built on top of these services. CORBA objects CORBA objects are comparable, in principle, to objects in C++ and Java. They MUST have a separate interface definition that is expressed using a common language (IDL) similar to C++. There is a mapping from this IDL to programming languages (C++, Java, etc.). Therefore, objects written in different languages can communicate with each other. Object request broker (ORB) The ORB handles object communications. It knows of all objects in the system and their interfaces. Using an ORB, the calling object binds an IDL stub that defines the interface of the called object. Calling this stub results in calls to the ORB which then calls the required object through a published IDL skeleton that links the interface to the service implementation. ORB-based object communications Inter-ORB communications ORBs are not usually separate programs but are a set of objects in a library that are linked with an application when it is developed. ORBs handle communications between objects executing on the same machine. Several ORBS may be available and each computer in a distributed system will have its own ORB. Inter-ORB communications are used for distributed object calls. Inter-ORB communications CORBA services Naming and trading services These allow objects to discover