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Visigenic Software Inc., a maker of object-oriented middleware, recently introduced a version of its VisiBroker software that bridges the worlds of Corba and ActiveX. The VisiBroker for ActiveX Bridge lets ActiveX objects used in Web pages, Visual Basic applications, and OLE-based programs interoperate with Corba objects. The bridge is a developer's kit that lets programmers build connections between ActiveX controls on Windows clients and Common Object Request Broker systems.
The connectivity tool is simply a dynamic link library that runs on the Windows workstation to connect ActiveX objects to Corba objects, which also reside on the local computer. The bridge...