Real-Time CORBA

This paper describes the requirements for real-time extensions to the CORBA standard, which are being developed by the Object Management Group's Special Interest Group on Real-Time CORBA. The paper also surveys efforts that are developing Real-Time CORBA systems. It provides a more detailed description of the dynamic Real-Time CORBA system being developed at the US Navy's NRaD facilities and at the University of Rhode Island. 1 Introduction The Object Management Group (OMG), an organization of over 600 distributed software vendors and users, has developed the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) as a standard software specification for distributed object environments. In 1995 a Special Interest Group (SIG) was formed within the OMG with the goal of extending the CORBA standard with support for real-time applications. This real-time SIG (RT SIG), which itself is a consortium of academics, vendors, end-users, and government researchers, is developing requirements for exten..