An Object Request Broker (ORB) mediates between applications - including distributed ones. This document presents the design goals and philosophy that lead IONA Technologies to produce the object request broker, Orbix. The Ada language binding is described, and some simple programming examples are given to illustrate its operation.The introduction discusses the needs for ORBs and the industry initiatives that arose from that need - culminating in the OMG's CORBA specifications.
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