BOA   Basic Object Adapter
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
DII   Dynamic Invocation Interface
DSI   Dynamic Skeleton Interface
GIOP  General Inter-ORB Protocol
IDL   Interface Definition Language
IIOP  Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
IOR   Interoperable Object Reference
OMG   Object Management Group
ORB   Object Request Broker
PIDL  Pseudo IDL
POA   Portable Object Adapter
RMI   Remote Method Invocation
UUID  Universally Unique Identifier