The final specification for the Object Management Group’s Object Request Broker was completed a few days ago and the formal document is now being prepared for Technical Committee approval: both submissions have been modified so that they can work within a common object request broker – the Hyperdesk Inc-Digital Equipment Corp team has changed its application programming interface to accommodate the language-based approach of the Hewlett-Packard Co-Sun Microsystems Inc-NCR Corp-Object Design Inc team, which in turn has made changes to its Class Definition Language – now known as the Interface Definition Language; the details have been agreed and the programming interface can now be accessed using virtually any language binding that the developer chooses; at the moment developers tend to be following either the static or the dynamic approach in their applications, though observers think its only a matter of time before hybrid applications are developed that can make use of either messaging type.
