Much of the focus of the Object World show this year was again on plumbing and competing Object Request Broker implementations. With – it is to be hoped – Common Object Request Broker Architecture 2.0 nailed down into products by this time next year, and full-blown object environments actually shipping, the industry should begin competing on the creation of real object-based applications, not just the utilities. Like many others, Object Request Broker house Expersoft Corp anticipated the time when an Object Request Broker connection becomes simply another standard socket on the back of every computer. Vendors at the show reported a general shift from why should I use objects? to how can I use objects? from attendees.
