Can CORBA fulfil data transfer requirements of industrial enterprises?

The globalization of industrial enterprises leads to problems caused by the heterogeneity of hard- and software. To overcome these problems, distributed platforms can be used. Yet, much work remains to be done on distributed platforms before they actually can meet industrial needs. For example, there is no standardized mechanism for asynchronous data transfer and no possibility to transmit so-called container objects. The authors look at different methods of data transfer based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), which are synchronous, one-way, retarded synchronous and asynchronous data transfer. Based upon the requirements of different enterprises, several experiments to realize an optimal CORBA-based data transfer are studied