A computer network environment that supports both Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Data Distribution Service (DDS) can employ the techniques described herein. The techniques relate to CORBA discovery, which enables clients to learn the location of a function or service maintained by a server in the computing environment. The CORBA discovery methodology described herein utilizes a DDS infrastructure to communicate data objects from the server to the clients such that each of the subscribing clients can create a proxy for communication with the server. Once the CORBA discovery procedure is complete, subscribing clients can call the desired server function using their respective proxies.