The problem with firewalls is that they prevent friendly distributed objects getting through as well as keeping the harmful things out, and that’s especially true for companies trying to work with Corba-compliant open object request broker technologies. However, Dublin, Ireland-based Iona Technologies Ltd is working on a Wonderwall release – named after the Oasis song by the way – of its Orbix distributed object request broker technology it says will propel Java objects through those firewalls. It’s a server-side firewall proxy for the IIOP Internet Inter-ORB Protocol transport layer. The Wonderwall technology runs on the bastion host, and it allows users to filter, control and log IIOP traffic between clients on the exterior, Internet network, and IIOP servers on the internal network.
