From: wbc@lookout.uswest.com (Brad Cleavenger) Subject: Re: TECH: My standard is better than your standard! Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1992 19:19:36 GMT Message-ID: <1992Jul7.191936.12207@advtech.uswest.com> Organization: US WEST Communications In article , broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) writes: > > In article <1992Jul1.031727.24190@u.washington.edu> snoswell@ucs.adelaide.edu.au > (Michael Snoswell) writes: > >I reckon this is the crux of the matter really. It doesn't matter what > >machine you have or what language it uses to implement the connection to > >the other machines is. The final communication layer will be based on > >the protocol for the communication between all these different machines > >and programming can be done in *that*. > > Yes -- and if we can define such a protocol, we've made a major step. Have you heard of the Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification ( CORBA )? It was developed by the Object Management Group (OMG) which consists of DEC, HP, SunSoft, NCR and about 250 other members. It basically provides the spec's for an Object Request Broker (ORB) which is a mechanism that allows independent objects to talk to each other without knowing where each other live. These objects can reside on different machines and can be created with different programming languages. I know that several vendors are currently working on ORB implementations. Brad Cleavenger US WEST Communications wbc@lookout.uswest.com