Is CORBA legacy?

Question

For a distributed computing project starting today, with 0 legacy components, are there any good reasons to look into CORBA?

Answer 1

I believe that Corba was sort of revived by original EJB spec, as EJB's can be easily turned into CORBA beans by a bit of configuration. I suspect that most Corba deployments were actually implemented in Java.

As to the popularity, I think that there might be some high end deployments remaining for a number of decades but for the majority of people Corba is dead.

There are a whole lot of very sexy ways to do the same stuff (excepting the high end mentioned above).

• Cloud computing (web services, scalable computing, loose coupling, queueing).
• REST services (web-services lite).
• SOAP services (web-services heavy).
• Grid / Cluster computing (queueing, map-reduce and similar)

But of course your Milage May Vary.