Reflective ORBs: Supporting Robust, Time-critical Distribution

this paper, we show how reflection enables the construction of a composable ORB that can be customized to support new features. After reviewing Common Request Broker Architecture (CORBA [9]), we discuss reflection [5] and its application to ORBs. Then we consider the requirements for a real-time ORB and show how we use reflection to build real-time support in our ORB. Later we address other services like fault-tolerance and show that systematic application of reflection can result in a plug and play system. We conclude with initial performance results and discussion of future work. 2 Standard ORB