COM/CORBA/DCOP (was: Hello people. I have some questions)

[Paul Rubin]

Markus Schaber <markus at schabi.de> writes:
> In Corba, you communicate through stub objects. So the stub object 
> could simply make a direct jump to the original method when the object 
> is local.
> 
> The overhead then is in creating the stub, but calling is pretty slim.

What exactly does the ORB do in this situation?  I thought the ORB
runs in a separate process and the client process always calls the ORB.