System and method for communications between a CORBA object request broker and a non-CORBA object request broker

摘要

A system for communication between a non-CORBA object request broker and a CORBA object request broker is provided that includes a non-CORBA object request broker ( 112 ) executing on a client system ( 102 ) and a CORBA object request broker ( 114 ) executing on a server system ( 104 ). The non-CORBA object request broker ( 112 ) provides client side inter-object communications support. The CORBA object request broker ( 114 ) provides server-side inter-object communications support. A network ( 106 ) connects the client system ( 102 ) with the server system ( 104 ). A reference object ( 158 ) in the non-CORBA object request broker ( 112 ) encodes outgoing communications into an Internet Inter-ORB Protocol format. The reference object ( 158 ) decodes incoming communications from Internet Inter-ORB Protocol format into a format native to the non-CORBA object request broker ( 112 ).