CCA - CORBA Component Architecture

This project aims to make creating CORBA server and client implementation as
easy as possible. User code is build into components, which are shared
libraries or executables. An application is described by an XML assembly
descriptor, which tells CCA which components to load, and how to interconnect
them.

The ideas for CCA are taken from the CORBA Component Model (CCM), an OMG
standard, which was deemed to complex and full of superfluous features to
implement correctly. Additionally, CCM requires very current extensions to
the CORBA standard to be implemented by the ORB; this is avoided by CCA,
making it much more portable between different ORB implementations, on a
larger variety of platforms.

CCA includes an event channel component (ccaevents), implementing CORBA Event
Channels. It is based on the omniEvents (http://www.omnievents.org/) Event
Channel service implementation. Please refer to the documentation included with
that project to learn about the parameters supported by the CCA event channel
component.

Dirk O. Kaar
2004-11-24
