Description: Distributed computing is in demand. Developers and companies are embracing the technology quickly. Both complementary and competing software packages are being deployed monthly. At the forefront of this hype is the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) specification. Whether there are new net-centric languages such as Sun's Java or component-object models such as Netscape's ONE, they all tie in with the Object Management Group's (OMG's) CORBA specification in one way or another