Using CORBA as a distributed extension solution for OSGi

Abstract

To meet the requirements of OSGi distributed processing capabilities from enterprise computing, this paper proposes a convenient way which adds distributed computing capability to OSGi framework and supports interoperation between OSGi and legacy CORBA applications. This is achieved by using CORBA dynamic technology which implements the remote service invocation capability and CORBA naming service which supports remote service discovery capability. In the end, this paper proves the distributed processing capabilities by testing our implementation in a simple scenario with a legacy CORBA application.