Re: Com+ and Financial Transactions

[Ted Halmrast <tedh@tera.teralink.com>]

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Steve Cohen wrote:

> CORBA is in some ways a similar initiative by the anti-Microsofts.  Their big disadvantage
> when compared to COM is political:  CORBA is promulgated by a consortium, a standards body,
> that must and does fight it out to achieve a consensus.  Microsoft is under no such
> obligation: COM is whatever they say it is.  It has therefore been able to move more nimbly
> and gain market share over CORBA for that reason alone.  Java Beans are another attempt to
> achieve the same sort of reuse using Java.  One question I'm particularly foggy about is
> what if any links there are between Java Beans and CORBA.

There is a concept called "CORBA Beans" which are strongly related to 
Java Beans.  This allows one to take a CORBA component and make it look 
like a Java Bean to Java (even if the CORBA Bean isn't even written in 
Java) and also makes it possible for Java Beans to be accessible as CORBA 
Beans from CORBA applications.  The Java and CORBA camps seem to be doing 
a fairly good job of making sure the two architectures are fully 
interoperable.

Ted Halmrast
tedh@tera.teralink.com