Corba

Pros

• Request broker based architecture (event-driven, but without message passing)
• Proxies for access, location and access transparency

Cons

• Client-Server
• RPC (blocking, synchronous)
• IDL: signature compliance for types, no behaviour

Notes:

• The common way around blocking in object servers is threads. This restores in fact asynchrony, but in a global context.
• Transactions are coming
• Tradeoffs have been made for language independence. Was it worth the while?

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