The Object Technology Revolution

The Object Management Group (OMG) is a consortium of 400 vendors, founded in 1989 to create industry standards before any major products were introduced. As a result the OMG's CORBA (Common Object Request Broker), Object Management Architecture, and Common Object Services Specifications have been widely adopted as de facto industry standards. At the moment, object technology is in its infancy, but it is assumed that many more programmers and developers will begin working with it in the next few years, with OMG standards being the true industry standard for object-oriented system development. This volume discusses the new object-oriented technologies and describes how they can be developed to conform with OMG standards. It explains why businesses need to use distributed processing and object technology for information processing. It reduces fairly technical concepts to easily understandable terms and shows how these new technologies and the OMG specifications, once combined and standardized, will support future commercial information system requirements.