> there is no way you can make a real-time system using CORBA It seems the military uses CORBA frequently for such systems. "the Navy has specified the use of

> there is no way you can make a real-time system using CORBA It seems the military uses CORBA frequently for such systems. "the Navy has specified the use of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)—the military's favorite mission-critical middleware model." http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-navys-newest-warship-is-powered-by-linux/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-na... and http://www.ois.com/Markets/military-and-aerospace.html http://www.ois.com/Markets/military-and-aerospace.html The military has control of the allowed CORBA implementations so they don't suffer from different runtimes that plauged it's usage in Internet scenarios, and get all the typed benefits and speed benefits. Not that I think CORBA is necessarily a great protocol in general, but then again I don't have any idea what tradeoffs are appropriate for the military either.