2. CORBA concepts

2.1 Object-oriented client/server model

The CORBA bus provides an object-oriented client/server model of abstraction and cooperation for distributed applications. Each application can export some of its functionality (services) in the form of CORBA objects: this is the abstraction (structuring) component of the model. Interactions between applications are then materialized by remote invocations of object methods: this is the cooperation component. The client/server notion only comes into play when an object is used: the application implementing the object is the server, the application using the object is the client. Of course, an application can be both client and server.

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