Digital Equipment Corp claims Corba 2.0 compliance for its ObjectBroker object request broker now that it has added C++ bindings, and says it will embed the IIOP Internet InterOrb Protocol into ObjectBroker within six months. That’s the Object Management Group-defined transport DEC unsuccessfully lobbied against during the Corba 2.0 Request for Proposals. Java bindings will be added within nine months. DEC already includes the EISOP wire protocol in ObjectBroker, which is optional for Corba 2 .0. It demonstrated ObjectBroker using Distributed Computing Environment-derived EISOP linking with IBM’s SOM request broker earlier this year. Wearing its Distributed Component Object Model object hat, DEC is promising Object Linking & Embedding automation in the future, but there is no time-frame for that. DEC has had the source code for Network Object Linking & Embedding for some time now. There will be another new upgrade of Object-Broker sometime in the fall including support for addiional Unix variants such as Solaris 2.5 and HP-UX 10.X.
