to the application will remain compliant
with the OMG CORBA standard.
<p>There will be several stages of the development process: (1) basic pluggable
transport protocols framework, (2) support for multiple profiles, (4) add
example transport protocols, such as ATM and VME, and refine/optimize the
transport protocols framework, and (4) add support for pluggable ORB protocols,
e.g., replacements for GIOP. Each of these steps is outlined below:
<ul>
<li>
<b>Basic pluggable transport protocols framework</b>: We