Represent all of the data types that can be used as arguments and return values in remote invocations in CORBA

15 primitive types

• Short (16bit), long(32bit), unsigned short, unsigned long, float, char, …

Constructed types

• Types that composed by several primitive types

A message example

The type of a data item is not given with the data representation in message

• It is assumed that the sender and recipient have common knowledge of the order and types of the data items in a message.
• For RMI and RPC, each method invocation passes arguments of particular types, and the result is a value of a particular type.
  
  
  

CORBA CDR for constructed types