title: A new Object Request Broker architecture in implementing a medical picture retrieval system.
abstract: This paper describes the approach we used to implement the world wide web user interface of MediPict, a medical picture retrieval system. The best software architecture seemed to be the three-tier client/server architecture using Objects Request Brokers (ORB) which appears to have many benefits. Although CORBA appears to be the standard ORB, we found it more adequate to develop a different approach. This new ORB resolves many of CORBA's weaknesses (non coherent types, need of a static IDL, maintenance difficulties) by using the same language on the top and middleware tiers.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale, Faculté de Médecine, Rennes, France.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Silberzahn
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lefevre
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Le Beux
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003628:Database Management Systems; D006801:Humans; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface