What can be done using CORBA?

[Awareness]

I have read some articles about CORBA but I didn't understand much.Especially I didn't understand what can be done using it.Can I create a web site or web application with it?Can I create a web service like Gmail or a message board?

[rapidcoder]

Nothing new. CORBA is a legacy technology, like COBOL, and has been displaced by better things like Thrift, Hessian, Protocol Buffers or REST or eventually (ugly) SOAP.

[z05DSL3A]

http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/corbafaq.htm

[andywestken]

What can be done using CORBA?

CORBA allows (or rather, allowed) you to write and use reusable components:
- it allows components written in different programming languages to work together, in a consistent way
- it allows you to search for and obtain existing components, including those written by other people
- it allows you to commuicate with components in other processes and on other comupters
- ...

what can be done using it.

In theory anything; you just have to obtain or write the necessary components.

But it's not something anyone would consider doing these days. As rapidcoder said, CORBA is pretty much dead.

Andy

PS In the Windows world, the similar component-based technology "COM" is still very much alive. It did look like COM had been superseded by .Net, but with Window 8 (with the new COM-based Windows Runtime (WinRT) to replace Win32), it's come back to life!

[G309216C]

To be honest COBRA is dead language and if you want to work in software, industry this will not increase chances of employment *much*

Thanks,

[Cubbi]

I used it at one time to (for the most part) call Java functions from C++ and C++ functions from Java.. where the java and the c++ code was running on different computers (or, sometimes, on the same computer) and the application didn't need to know where those computers are or that they even existed. It worked, but I got rid of it, for various reasons.

[Awareness]

Thanks for your answers.