More interesting perhaps is IBM Corp’s planned support for a second release of Pipes in which PeerLogic will implement the Object Management Group’s CORBA 2 General Inter-Object Request Broker Protocol, GIOP, message format for connecting different Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant object request brokers. The General protocol can be hosted on TCP or Distributed Computing Environment-CIOP transports and as IBM plans TCP/IP and Distributed Computing Environment Remote Procedure Call versions of System Object Model within a year, Pipes should offer a means of deploying objects across different System Object Model implementations and other Pipes-enabled object request brokers without modification. Peer Logic supported the General Inter-Object Request Broker Protocol at the Object Group’s CORBA 2 vote and says the very thought of doing object computing on Remote Procedure Calls was a bizarre notion. It hopes it will be able to build on Pipes for use in bridging the Microsoft Corp Common Object Model-to-Object Request Broker worlds.
