Microsoft, MDA, and Multiple Languages

by Paul Harmon

At the very end of the 1980s, a group of companies got together to form the Object Management Group (OMG). Their stated goal was to make integration easier. Specifically, they hoped to get ahead of the move toward object-oriented languages that was just beginning and propose standards that would assure that the various OO languages could communicate with each other. By the mid-1990s, the OMG had created CORBA, a middleware architecture that defined a way for OO languages to talk with one another. In contrast, by the mid-1990s, Microsoft had defined its own middleware architecture, COM, which was tailored to support communication between languages and tools that ran on Windows.

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Microsoft, MDA, and Multiple Languages 10 November 2004