US 7,574,714 B2
System and method for providing interoperability between different programming protocols
Larry A. Black, Birmingham, Ala. (US); and Ronald O. Pierce, Hoover, Ala. (US)
Assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Reno, Nev. (US)
Filed on Jan. 14, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/341,613.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/405598, filed on Aug. 23, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2004/0039800 A1, Feb. 26, 2004
Int. Cl. G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 719—330  [709/203] 42 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. In a distributed network compatible with both Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Java™2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), a method comprising:
instantiating a CORBA server within an Enterprise Java™ Bean (EJB) container, wherein the CORBA server is instantiated during startup of middle-tier hardware, wherein the CORBA server is initiated in a servlet context with parameters that are passed back and forth from an application that is called;
instantiating at least one Enterprise Java™ Bean within the Enterprise Java™ Bean (EJB) container;
accessing a local interface of the EJB from the instantiated CORBA server; and
providing data to a client workstation.