CORBA on WWW: evaluative framework for interoperability issues

In spite of various research efforts to seamlessly integrate distributed object systems (DOS) and World Wide Web (WWW or Web), with the main aim of bringing together benefits of both, interoperability concerns (issues) in the integration of DOS and WWW have not been addressed adequately in the literature. Interoperability is the fundamental concern when systems, such as software components, architectural elements interacting with each other. To prove the adequacy of interfaces (bridges) between two interoperable systems or to evaluate the sufficiency of such interoperability, shortcomings of the interfacing needs to be identified. Moreover, a qualitative and/or quantitative framework is required to evaluate the two different interoperability mechanisms. The main focus of the paper is to identify and highlight some interoperability concerns that could emerge in the development of heterogeneously distributed CORBA applications on WWW. We further propose a framework for evaluating interoperability, that provides a uniform strategy to compare solutions that provides interoperability solutions.