A development framework for building fine-grained CORBA(R) applications

Many CORBA deployments assume that CORBA objects are relatively large and that their state is stored in an existing database. These relatively large objects also typically maintain very few references to other CORBA objects. As CORBA matures, more applications will be developed completely within the CORBA framework. Consequently, the expectation for these new applications is that the objects will be smaller, contain more references to other CORBA objects, and require integrated support for the handling of object persistence. We present our experience in developing an infrastructure to support CORBA applications of the latter type