IIOP - Internet Inter-ORB Protocol

• Specified by the OMG as the standard communication protocol between ORBs

• Resides on top of TCP/IP

• Developers don’t need to “learn” IIOP; the ORB handles this for them

• Specifies common format for:

  • object references, known as the Interoperable Object Reference (IOR)
  • Messages exchanged between a client and the object

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