(IIop) A protocol which will be mandatory for all CORBA 2.0 compliant platforms. The initial phase of the project is to build an infrastructure consisting of: an IIop to HTTPgateway which allows CORBA clients to access WWW resources an HTTP to IIop gateway to let WWW clients access CORBA resources a web server which makes resources available by both IIop and HTTP web browsers which can use IIop as their native protocol. Start . (1996-04-01)