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Corba language neutrality gone?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-think-about dept.

Linuk writes "Here's an interesting article, CORBA 3.0 POSTMORTEM, about the OMG's adoption of EJB as its eagerly awaited component spec. It argues that OMG has now given up on its vendor neutral and language independent pretentions. "

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  1. Read the OMG Press Release by Thornton · · Score: 4

    He basically claims that OMG is giving up language neutrality. Here is a quote from the OMG press release that he is supposedly commenting on:

    While the CORBA solution has embraced Java, it has not done so at the expense of other languages. In fact, Java is the only language for which CORBA supports binary portability. For other all other languages, CORBA is portable only at the source code level.

    The press release is simply a joint announcement from Sun and OMG announcing that there will be a close collaboration between EJB and CORBA. Importantly, EJB will be supporting the core of CORBA's network communication model: IIOP, which pretty much guarantees that you can write your objects in any language and on any platform, as long as you can make TCP sockets.

    I must say that this guy's experience is really, really, far from my own and that ceretainly shapes his very, very different interpretation of this press release. He says that he sees half of all programmers who are working with object integration programming with VB. I certainly don't.

    I think people should read the OMG release themselves and draw their own conclusions, but I read it as a commitment from Sun to cooperate with OMG to come up with a vendor neutral object specification ... something to address the fundamental questions of vendor and platform dependence raised by Microsoft's DOM.

  2. ObjectWatch? A little biased maybe? by reverse+solidus · · Score: 4

    1. The deadline for CORBA Component model proposals isn't until August 1999, so no decision has been made.

    2. The OMG press release doesn't say what Mr. Sessions implies. It certainly doesn't say that vendor/language neutrality is being abandonded for the Component Model. It's basically just says EJB and CORBA work real good together. Read it for yourself here

    3. And finally, from ObjectWatch's home page: "We specialize in offering training and
    consulting on Microsoft's distributed component architectures"