The Rise and Fall of CORBA

  • Authors:
  • Michi Henning

  • Affiliations:
  • ZeroC

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Component Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Depending on exactly when one starts counting, CORBA is about 10-15 years old. During its lifetime, CORBA has moved from being a bleeding-edge technology for early adopters, to being a popular middleware, to being a niche technology that exists in relative obscurity. It is instructive to examine why CORBA—despite once being heralded as the “next-generation technology for e-commerce”—suffered this fate. CORBA’s history is one that the computing industry has seen many times, and it seems likely that current middleware efforts, specificallyWeb services, will reenact a similar history.