From CORBA to Cloud-Native: Evolving Tech, Enduring Distributed Systems Principles

Thu, 28 May 2015 14:54:00 +0800

This post revisits a system we built years ago: a CORBA-based distributed component assembly platform.
It is easy to label it as “legacy tech,” but that misses the point. The core problems we solved then are still with us today; only the implementation style has changed.

Project Snapshot: A Heterogeneous Component Assembly System

The system had four core components:

A bus component
A UI component
A database component
A server component

These components were implemented in different languages (C++ and Java) and interoperated through CORBA middleware.
We also built four Eclipse plugins for distributed application assembly, configuration, and deployment.
A naming/registry-like service handled service registration and discovery.

Corba on H&W

From CORBA to Cloud-Native: Evolving Tech, Enduring Distributed Systems Principles

Project Snapshot: A Heterogeneous Component Assembly System