Common Object Request Broker Architecture

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The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) designed to facilitate the communication of systems that are deployed on diverse platforms. CORBA enables collaboration between systems on different operating systems, programming languages, and computing hardware. CORBA uses an object-oriented model although the systems that use the CORBA do not have to be object-oriented. CORBA is an example of the distributed object paradigm.

While briefly popular in the mid to late 1990s, COBRA's complexity, inconsistency and high licensing costs have relegated it to being a niche technology.^[1]