Object Request Brokers


Product Vendor Description
Arachne Arachne Arachne is a full featured CORBA implementation bundled with an optional layered toolkit for portable C++/CORBA GUI software development. All of Arachne is freely distributable and usable on a variety of platforms. Currently, Arachne is non-standard because its C++ language mapping predates the CORBA standard. However, Arachne interoperates just fine with other ORBs via IIOP, so only software portability to other ORBs is impacted.
CORBAplus Expersoft The CORBAplus product line of CORBA 2.0-compliant Object Request Broker (ORB) products turns your heterogeneous network into a unified network computing environment. With a unique patterns-based architecture, CORBAplus meets your enterprise needs by delivering superior performance, scalability, reliability, adaptability, and extensibility. In addition, CORBAplus simplifies the development and management of distributed object applications by supplying high level services and GUI tools. 
Dome Object-Oriented Technologies, Ltd. DOME (Distributed Object Management Environment) is a high performance C++ toolkit for the implementation of Distributed Systems using the OMG CORBA architecture for Object Request Brokers. 
Elektra Object Request Broker Softwired Electra is a CORBA V2 Object Request Broker (ORB) supporting the implementation of reliable distributed applications. An application is said to be reliable if its behavior is predictable in spite of partial failures, network partitions, and in spite ob objects joining and leaving the system dynamically. Optionally, Electra objects can be replicated to achieve fault tolerance. 
KixORB Server UniKix Technologies KixORB Server leverages the technological advances of CORBA, Java, Web browsers, and the object-oriented model with the irreplaceable wealth of business details stored in legacy systems. Object-wrappering occurs with the KixORB Server; whereby, C++ and Java developers can invoke methods using CORBA-compliant and/or Java calls. KixORB Server listens for methods calling CICS services from these programs and performs the request as an encapsulated component. The results are passed back to the requesting C++ or Java program.
MICO Johann Wolfgang Goethe Univeristaet - Frankfurt am Main The acronym MICO expands to MICO Is CORBA. The intention of this project is to provide a freely available and fully compliant implementation of the CORBA 2.2 standard. MICO has become quite popular as an OpenSource project and is widely used for different purposes.

There is a mailing list.

ObjectBroker BEA Systems BEA ObjectBroker is the industry-leading CORBA-based Object Request Broker for supporting high-performance, distributed object applications. BEA Object Broker simplifies the creation of distributed object-based solutions by integrating existing applications, as well as the development of new applications, in a mixed vendor environment. With BEA ObjectBroker, developers can successfully develop, manage and deploy distributed object applications completely independent of the underlying hardware, and operating system environment.
ORBacus (formerly known as OmniBroker) Object Oriented Concepts Our flagship product, ORBacus (formerly known as OmniBroker) is a robust, full-featured object request broker. Free for non-commercial use, with complete support for multithreading, full compliance with the CORBA specifications, unsurpassed portability, an open architecture and complete source code, ORBacus is in a class by itself.
OmniORB AT&T Laboratories Cambridge omniORB2 is an Object Request Broker (ORB) which implements specification 2.0 of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). It is our second generation ORB (hence the name 'omniORB two').
Orbix Iona IONA’s Orbix product family provides the robust, flexible and scalable middleware infrastructure needed to solve today’s business integration problems. Orbix enables an organization’s software development team to eliminate or reduce the time spent on solving integration issues that are created by the organization’s variety of hardware platforms, network protocols, application tools, programming languages, operating system or compiler versions.
Visibroker Inprise VisiBroker provides the ease-of-use, the scalability and the flexibility required to confront the many challenges of today's complex, heterogeneous application environments. As the leading deployed CORBA implementation, VisiBroker makes good on the promise of the Object Management Group's (OMG's) CORBA standard: leveraging emerging Internet technologies, enabling application re-use to improve time-to-market and providing a solid, industry standard foundation for mission-critical applications.
Voyager ObjectSpace Voyager is a Java agent-enhanced Object Request Broker (ORB). Voyager allows Java programmers to create sophisticated network applications using both traditional and agent-enhanced distributed programming techniques.
WebSphere IBM Expand e-business computing power with WebSphere Application Server, Enterprise Edition, combining the open, interoperable Java, EJB, and CORBA technologies with the IBM transaction technology trusted and used in 99 of the Fortune 100 companies. 

Last updated 01 Oct 2000


Copyright © 1999-2001, Middleware Resource Center. All rights reserved.