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. 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 being implemented by the ORB (CORBA 3); this is avoided
by CCA, making it much more portable between different ORB implementations,
on a larger variety of platforms.

Dirk O. Kaar
2003-11-18
