CorbaScript and CorbaWeb: A generic object-oriented dynamic environment upon corba

Traditionally, distributed object-oriented applications are based on a static approach where each application knows, at compilation time, all object types which could be used. This paper presents an approach to the construction of a new type of objectoriented application over large scale distributed systems that we call a “generic ” application. These applications use objects dynamically without prior knowledge of the object types at compilation time. We present two tools based on this approach: Corba-Script, a generic object shell interpreter and CorbaWeb, a generic object browser based on WWW technology. These tools are implemented via the Dynamic Invocation Interface and the Interface Repositor