Method and apparatus for honoring CORBA transaction requests by a legacy data base management system

An apparatus for and method of permitting a CORBA user terminal to request services from an enterprise server having XATMI applications. The service request is generated and transmitted in accordance with CORBA protocol as an IIOP message. A CORBA adapter makes the data format conversions. The request is honored by the enterprise server and a response is generated. The response is converted to CORBA protocol and transferred to the user terminal. Unlike previous and less efficient approaches, the CORBA Naming Service of the CORBA Object Request Broker does not initialize any CORBA objects at server startup. Instead, individual CORBA objects are not initialized until actual use is required.