With the rapid growth of the Internet, distributed Web-enabled applications
are becoming popular. One of the most commonly used architectures for
development of such applications is CORBA, which provides a platform,
location and an implementation-language-neutral architecture for the
development of distributed applications. In addition, the phenomenal interest
in component technology has led to the development of CORBA Beans. Such CORBA
components and objects will soon be available for use on the Web. When you
encounter such a CORBA object, you may wish to use its services by
dynamically discovering its properties (something similar to Introspect and
Reflection in Java). CORBA supports this.
What Is Dynamic Invocation?
CORBA allows you to discover an object's properties d... (more)