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ORB (Object Request Broker) Related Entries Web Links New/Updated Information Note: Many topics at this site are reduced versions of the text in "The Encyclopedia of Networking and Telecommunications." Search results will not be as extensive as a search of the book's CD-ROM. In a distributed object-oriented environment, an ORB (object request broker) manages communication among objects and provides mechanisms for finding objects on a network that can satisfy a client request for services. It also prepares the target object to accept the request (there may be a difference in implementation). The ORB also handles the plumbing that allows objects to communicate over a network. For example, an object running on a client sends a message to an object running on the server by sending a message from its ORB interface (called a "stub") to the server's ORB interface. See "CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture)," "Distributed Object Computing," and "Object Technologies." Copyright (c) 2001 Tom Sheldon and Big Sur Multimedia.
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