The ORB

This description of the Object Request Broker (ORB) provides background information to help you understand how the ORB works.

The IBM® ORB that is provided with this release is used by WebSphere® Application Server. It is one of the enterprise features of the Java™ Standard Edition. The ORB is both a tool and a runtime component. It provides distributed computing through the CORBA Internet Inter-Orb Protocol (IIOP) communication protocol. The protocol is defined by the Object Management Group (OMG). The ORB runtime environment consists of a Java implementation of a CORBA ORB. The ORB toolkit provides APIs and tools for both the Remote Method Invocation (RMI) programming model and the Interface Definition Language (IDL) programming model.