COSS: the common object services specifications

The Object Management Group (OMG) is promoting standards for distributed object systems among system software vendors. The OMG has currently ado@ed two sets of standards, known as CORBA and COSS. CORBA is the core communication mechanism which all OMG objects use it enables distributed objects to opmte on =ch other. COSS defines standard services that SUppOtt the integration of distributed objects.