Internet Inter-ORB Protocol

(eye-eye-oh-P)

In a distributed computing environment various developer and vendor objects interact via an Object Request Broker (ORB). Basically, these are software "negotiators" that facilitate the conversion of data from the transmitting system to the receiving system so the two systems understand one another. The CORBA specification controls these items. CORBA 1.0 left it up to developers. CORBA 2.0 provided the method ORBs need to communicate (the General Inter-ORB Protocol or GIOP). GIOPs, however, were still system-specific so a more general standardized version was needed: the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol or IIOP.

More Information

• IIOP Specification: A Closer Look
• IIOP.NET