Centralized server provides chat room services to clients.

##Build

Open a terminal on server machine:

cd git/chatsystem-corba/
javac *.java classes/*.java classes/ChatServerPackage/*.java
idlj -fall -td classes/ ChatSystem.idl
orbd -ORBInitialPort 1050 -ORBInitialHost localhost &
java -classpath classes/ Server -ORBInitialPort 1050

On client machine:

java -classpath .:classes/ Client -ORBInitialPort 1050

##Architecture

Implements CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) RMI (Remote Method Invocation) architecture consisting of a centralized server which provides chat room services to clients through the use of an IDL (Interface Definition Language) interface.

The server instantiates a CORBA object, creates a remote object reference to it and binds this reference to the name service. Potential clients look up the name service to resolve the reference to the CORBA object, once this is complete the client may invoke any remote methods specified by the CORBA object’s IDL interface.

The remote methods declared in the IDL file specify the expected types of the input and output parameters for each method, this mechanism provides the interoperability between CORBA applications wrote in different languages.