Performance evaluation of middleware bridging technologies

This paper provides a state-of-the-art study of bridging between different middleware technologies. Two DCOM-CORBA bridges, IONA OrbixCOMet and Visual Edge ObjectBridge, as well as a DCE-CORBA bridge by Inprise are tested and evaluated. Several configurations, depending on the number of machines and location of the bridge, are employed and two languages (C++ and Java) are used. The results show that the three bridges perform reasonably well for different configurations and language mappings.