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Isabella · Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 100

The recent posts here at Artima on Software Architecture and SOA by Bill Venners and Frank Sommers made me think a little about CORBA and where it stands today as an enterprise middleware technology. I mostly hear about CORBA in the academia, taught as part of a course on Distributed Systems, and very little these days in the industry, although some parts of it, like IIOP, seem to be hanging on strongly. In fact, I've been hearing more about Jini quite lately.

Talks on architecture and technological direction today tend to be centered more on newer technologies like J2EE, .Net and Web Services. So, after talking to and also been asked by people about CORBA and its place in the industry, compared to the more newer technologies, I'm curious to know: Where does it stand today and is it ever talked about anymore when providing software architectural direction?