Using JXTA for Firewall Traversal in Distributed CORBA Applications

Overview

JacORB is a free Java ORB that is ETF-compliant, that is, it supports the substitution of its transport layer in a standard way. JXTA is a peer-to-peer protocol stack, also implemented as free software, which can traverse firewalls and NAT gateways. This paper describes an extended version of JacORB that runs GIOP over JXTA. Binding CORBA and JXTA technologies together allows components of distributed CORBA applications to be deployed in complex network environments, which may contain firewalls or IP address translators.