Common Data Representation (CDR) is used to represent structured or
primitive data types passed as arguments or results during remote invocations on
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) designed to facilitate the communication of systems that are deployed on diverse platforms. CORBA enables collaboration between sys ...
(CORBA)
distributed object
In distributed computing, distributed objects are objects (in the sense of object-oriented programming) that are distributed across different address spaces, either in different processes on the same computer, or even in multiple computers conn ...
s.
It enables clients and servers written in different
programming language
A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. Most programming languages are text-based formal languages, but they may also be graphical. They are a kind of computer language.
The description of a programming ...
s to work together. For example, it translates
little-endian to
big-endian
In computing, endianness, also known as byte sex, is the order or sequence of bytes of a word of digital data in computer memory. Endianness is primarily expressed as big-endian (BE) or little-endian (LE). A big-endian system stores the most sig ...
. It assumes prior agreement on type, so no information is given with data representation in messages.
External links
Official CDR spec(see PDF page 4).
provides CDR streams.
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
Data serialization formats
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