2.6.1 A note on terminology

CORBA objects are what CORBA servers implement and provide to CORBA clients. In CORBA, an object is basically a collection of code that supports an interface declared as an IDL interface.

Because server applications are typically not much more than the infrastructural wrapper around the code that implements the CORBA object, it is often convenient to talk of a server as if it is the CORBA object, or a collection of CORBA objects. Here and elsewhere, we occasionally use the term "CORBA object" where "server" might also be applicable.

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Developing Component Software with CORBA - 26 May 1999