Patent ID: 7882506

Claim:
A computer implemented system for receiving an incoming message including a General Inter-ORB Protocol (GIOP) header, a message header in Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) GIOP type format, and a message body in CORBA GIOP type format, the system comprising: an external CORBA Object Request Broker (ORB) element configured to convert the GIOP header and the message header of the incoming message to an implementation-specific format, wherein the external CORBA ORB element provides the GIOP header and the message header in implementation-specific format with the body in CORBA GIOP type format to a distribution mechanism, the distribution mechanism configured to identify a target server to process the body of the incoming message; and the target server comprising an internal CORBA ORB element configured to convert the body of the incoming message received from the distribution mechanism to an implementation-specific format without converting the GIOP header or the message header, and wherein the target server is configured to process the message responsive to the internal CORBA ORB converting the body of the incoming message.