Re: Whats a broker?

Rob McDonald schrieb: 
I'm looking at a rather substantial chunk of Java left behind by a
co-worker.  The code has nothing to do with CORBA or ORB as far as I can
tell.

He calls a whole bunch of stuff brokers, and I'm not sure what he means by
this.  It seems like an idiom describing how part of the program is
organized, but I'm not familiar with the idiom.  All my web searches turn up
stuff about CORBA.  I'm hoping that understanding the idiom will accelerate
my understanding of the rest of this program.

In real life a broker is a person mediating between 2 clients: one client wanting to buy a thing (for example a house), and another client wanting to sell such a thing.
The only thing I know about CORBA is: "ORB" means "Object Request Broker". Hence my vague guess is, that the ORB mediates between between 2 clients, one client requesting for an object, the other client providing such an object.

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