CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture(CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) that enables software components written in multiple computer languages and running on multiple computers to work together. CORBA is useful because it enables separate pieces of software written in different languages and running on different computers to work together as a single application or set of services. More specifically, CORBA is a mechanism in software for normalizing the method-call semantics between application objects that reside either in the same address space (application) or remote address space (same host, or remote host on a network)