Distributed Objects and the World Wide Web: 1

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Overview

This work uses the CORBA Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) which will be mandatory for all CORBA 2.0 compliant platforms. The initial phase of the project is to build an infrastructure consisting of:

• An IIOP to HTTP gateway which allows CORBA clients to access Web resources
• An HTTP to IIOP gateway which allows WWW clients to access CORBA resources
• A web server which makes it resource available by both IIOP and HTTP
• Web browsers which can use IIOP as their native protocol

Within CORBA, clients will be able to invoke CORBA services and the ORB (Object Request Broker) will locate and invoke the right service. If the service is outside the CORBA world, access will take place via the IIOP to HTTP gateway (this gateway will also convert from IIOP to other protocols such as FTP); the remote object will look like a CORBA object to the CORBA client (URL's look like CORBA objects).

Clients outside the CORBA world will see CORBA objects as web objects and will be able to direct HTTP requests to these objects through the HTTP to IIOP gateway.

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