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  40 <head><title>GNU Classpath - javax.rmi.CORBA</title></head>
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  43 <p>
  44 Java RMI over IIOP combines RMI technology with CORBA technology. Like plain RMI,
  45 RMI over IIOP allows to work completely in the Java programming language
  46 (no IDL). When CORBA needs a separate helper class for each structure being
  47 passed, RMI over IIOP only needs stubs and ties for the objects that are remotely
  48 accessible. As a result, development with RMI-IIOP is easier. However the
  49 specialised pure CORBA helpers needs no reflection to transfer they structures
  50 and hence may be faster than methods, used by both RMI-IIOP and plain RMI.
  51 </p><p>
  52 Like RMI, RMI over IIOP provides flexibility by allowing to pass any serializable
  53 Java object (Objects By Value) between application components. A certain
  54 "imaginary IDL" is automatically supposed; this IDL can be explicitly generated
  55 and later used to interoperate with non-java application.
  56 </p><p>
  57 Like CORBA, RMI over IIOP is based on open standards defined with the
  58 participation of hundredsof vendors and users in the OMG. It uses IIOP
  59 communication protocol that provides much better interoperability with other
  60 programming languages.
  61 </p><p>
  62 With RMI/IIOP you can use advanced CORBA features: multiple objects per servant
  63 and servants per object, servant activators and locators, servant, client and
  64 ior interceptors, CORBA naming service, various ORB policies, stringified object
  65 references and so on. This functionality is based on CORBA value type standard.
  66 RMI/IIOP supports (and GNU Classpath implements) transferring of the arbitrary
  67 connected object graphs (graph flattenning).
  68 </p><p>
  69 GNU Classpath RMI-IIOP functionality is implemented as described in
  70 OMG formal/03-09-04 (IDL to Java mapping v1.3). Value types are written as
  71 described in formal/04-03-12 (CORBA 3.0.3).
  72 </p>
  73 @author Wu Gansha (gansha.wu@intel.com), headers.
  74 @author Audrius Meskauskas (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org), implementation.
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