does CORBA support ASCII data exchange?

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  •  09-03-2022
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Question

I know that CORBA exchanges data using IDL, which supports binary format. Could someone please explain if it is possible to exchange data in ASCII ?

THinking you in advance for reply

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Solution

CORBA uses IDL to describe the data and operations. For actual transfer it uses some IOP - inter orb protocol. While in theory there could be ORB that defines and implements its proprietary text based IOP, I am not aware of any that does this, and every major ORB uses and provides IIOP which stands for Internet IOP, and uses binary encoding.

If on the other hand you are just interested in transferring text messages by using CORBA and not in details of ORB implementation, surely you can transfer text messages between 2 ORBS.

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