What are the general specifications for the Corba course project?
Our course project for CORBA Fundamentals I is to develop the architecture and define the requirements for an application called SmartParts.
The SmartParts application is illustrated in the image below. SmartParts contains many of the issues associated with real-world CORBA projects.

SmartParts will consist of a central CORBA Server written in Java running on the Unix Operating System.
The SmartParts server will interact with

1. an existing Pricing Database,
2. a Legacy Parts Reordering application, and
3. a real-time Parts Inventory data feed.

There will be two clients:

1. a Java applet and
2. a C++ application

that will run primarily on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Server Operating Systems.