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One of the goals of this specification is to allow any compliant interworking mechanism delivered on a COM client node to
interoperate correctly with any CORBA-compliant components that use the same interface specifications. Compliant interworking
solutions must appear, for all intents and purposes, to be CORBA object implementations and/or clients to other CORBA clients,
objects, and services on an attached network.
Figure 17-7 Bridge Locality
Figure 17-7 illustrates the required locality for interworking components. All of the
transformations between CORBA interfaces and COM interfaces described in this specification will take place on the node executing
the COM environment. Mapping agents (COM views, CORBA views, and bridging elements) will reside and execute on the COM client
node. This requirement allows compliant interworking solutions to be localized to a COM client node, and to interoperate with
any CORBA-compliant networking ORB that shares the same view of interfaces with the interworking solution.