Ke Jin wrote:
> CORBA, or some other distributed OO middlewares in general, are
> designed to fill up the semantic gap between high level distributed OO
> architecture design and low level transport. Here, distributed OO
> design means, your architecture design partitioned an application into
> business objects, located at different locations. As a good practice,
> architecture designs are usually business oriented, and avoid specific
> physical location, communication, platform, programming language,
> details. In this case, either you implement your own middle abstract
> layer to fill up this high level abstraction to low level transport,
> or, you use a third party middleware, like CORBA.

> If your application itself is already system or transport oriented,
> such as your purpose is simply sending an email or sending some data
> through a socket, you certainly don't need such a middle abstraction
> layer, or any CORBA like middleware at all.