System and method for communications between a CORBA object request broker and a non-CORBA object request broker

1. A system for communication between object request brokers (ORB), comprising:

a non-CORBA object request broker executing on a client system and providing inter-object communication support between the client system and a server system, the client system connected to the server system by a network, the non-CORBA object request broker operable to generate a class with a type code and a communication protocol without generating a stub or a skeleton associated with Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) object request brokers; and

a reference object in the non-CORBA object request broker operable to encode outgoing communications into an Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) format according to the communication protocol in the generated class, the reference object further operable to decode incoming communications from the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) format into a format native to the non-CORBA object request broker.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a CORBA object request broker executing on the server system.

3. The system of claim 1 , further comprising one or more streamers coupled to the reference object, the one or more streamers corresponding in number to methods of a target object, the one or more streamers serially sending bytes of outgoing communications to the server system.

4. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a client application on the client system.

5. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a target object on the server system.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the class is generated from Interface Description Language (IDL) definitions.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the non-CORBA object request broker provides an ORB-specific implementation of the IDL class having information to communicate with other ORBs.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein a remote proxy sends the outgoing communication to the reference object.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the remote proxy receives the outgoing communication from an application on the client system.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the reference object receives incoming communications from the server system.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the type code identifies a structure corresponding to an Interface Description Language (IDL) definition and provides communication support between CORBA and non-CORBA ORBs.

12. A method for communication between object request brokers (ORB), comprising:

invoking a method of a target object on a server system by an application on a client system;

generating on the client system a class with a type code and a communication protocol without generating a stub or a skeleton associated with Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) compliant object request brokers;

forwarding the method invocation to a reference object associated with the communication protocol in a client object request broker executing on the client system;

encoding the method invocation into Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) format;

sending the encoded method invocation to a server object request broker executing on the server system; and

invoking the method on the target object.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein sending the encoded method invocation includes:

forwarding the encoded method invocation to one of one or more streamer objects corresponding to a method invoked by the encoded method invocation; and

serially streaming bytes of the encoded method invocation to the server object request broker.

14. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

forwarding a result of the method invocation to the server object request broker;

transmitting the result to the client object request broker executing on the client system;

receiving the result encoded in Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) format in the reference object;

decoding the result into a format native to the client object request broker; and

forwarding the result to the application.