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Announcements scheduled for this week at Object World here show that the primary means of letting software objects work together over a network--the Object Request Broker (ORB)--is maturing quickly.
Iona Technologies, Ltd. in Dublin, Ireland, will announce the merging of its Orbix ORB with specialized software services from Isis Distributed Systems, Inc. of Marlborough, Mass., to create a fault-tolerant framework for distributed object applications.
Further evidence comes from PostModern Computing Technologies, Inc. in Mountain View, Calif. The company will unveil ORBeline 2.0, which it said is the first publicly available ORB that implements the complete Common ORB Architecture (CORBA) 2.0 specification.
The new Orbix + Isis product integrates Orbix, one of the few ORBs designed...