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Oracle Media Net
2-16 Introducing Oracle Video Server
Oracle Media Net
Oracle Media Net is a networking infrastructure that enables the OVS and its
clients to communicate in a distributed computing environment. Using
heterogeneous network protocols, Oracle Media Net enables connectionless
communication among the various OVS system components running on different
platforms. Oracle Media Net is Oracle’s implementation of CORBA (Common
Object Request Broker Architecture), so heterogeneous services programmed in
different languages and distributed over different computers in a network can
communicate without concern for each other’s location or the details in
transporting or converting data among them. CORBA is an open standard for
distributed network objects defined by the OMG (Object Management Group) that
provides the mechanisms by which applications transparently make requests and
receive responses.
Oracle Media Net abstracts the network for the application developer and the
network protocols underlying Oracle Media Net are transparent to the components
using it. You can create an application once and deploy it on many different
platforms without changing its Oracle Media Net calls. Oracle Media Net also
automatically bridges connections across network types, making multiple protocols
in the same network transparent and presents a reliable message service, even if the
underlying network protocols use unreliable messaging.
For complete conceptual information on Oracle Media Net, see the Oracle Media Net
Developer’s Guide.
Clients and Servers
When an application in an Oracle Media Net network needs to perform an
operation that requires resources or functionality not available locally, it requests
that a remote application perform the operation. The requesting application is
called the client and the remote application performing the operation is called the
server.