Components for a client/server architecture

[Irmen de Jong]

John Nagle wrote:

>     You don't hear much about CORBA any more.  It used to be derided
> as a bulky way to marshall data, but then came XML.

CORBA is much more than just a way to marshall data.
GIOP (or its more often used implementation IIOP) is the marshaling 
protocolused in CORBA. And it is hardly bulky!
Being a binary protocol, it is much faster and leaner than XML.

--Irmen