CORBA 2.6.1 Glossary

(1) In IDL, the relationship between an IDL construct and the corresponding construct in a
programming language.
(2) In the Naming Service, the relationship between a name and an object.
(3) In networking, binding is the establishment of a logical connection between communicating
entities.
Bootstrap Daemon (BSD)
A protocol that provides operations for resolving an initial object reference and for listing the
supported initial reference ids.
business domain
A collection of related business application processes, configuration data, and NonStop" services
for CORBA.
cast
To assign a value of one type to a variable of another type. An instance of a class can be cast to an
instance of another class if the latter is a subclass of the former or if an interface implements the
former.
certificate
A file obtained from a Certificate Authority that contains an encryption key. Certificates are digital
documents attesting to the binding of a public key to an individual or other entity. They allow
verification of the claim that a given public key does in fact belong to a given individual.
Certificates help prevent an imposter from using a key to impersonate someone else.
certification authority (CA)
A party trusted to vouch for the binding between names or identities and public keys. In some
systems, certification authorities generate public keys.
child class
An object class that inherits characteristics from another class.
cipher suite
A set of cryptographic algorithms.
class data
Variables that apply, not to a specific object instance, but to an object class as a whole; for
example, a variable that reports the number of instances of a class.
cleartext
A message that is not encrypted and can be understood by anyone.
CLI
See Command Line Interface.
client