Adapter between CORBA object and its incarnation. Due to the lack of precision of the standard most implementations are incompatible. The POA should resolve this issue and should be used instead.

See Also: Portable Object Adapter.

See: Basic Object Adapter

Standard Object Architecture, managed by the OMG.

See: Common Object Request Broker Architecture

Protocol for ORB interoperability.

See: General Inter-ORB Protocol

See: Interface Definition Language

See: Internet Inter-ORB Protocol

Implementation language-independent interface specification language.

Mapping of GIOP which runs directly over TCP/IP.

Reference used when crossing object reference domain boundaries, within bridges.

See: Interoperable Object Reference

Consortium of 800 members for vendor independent specifications for the software industry.

See: Object Management Group

Provides the means by which clients make and receive requests and responses.

See: Object Request Broker

Basically a tighter specified and extended BOA. The POA describes a full set of models and policies for managing object life-cycles.

See Also: Basic Object Adapter.

See: Portable Object Adapter

Time for a message to travel to a destination and back.

See: Round Trip Time