Re: org.omg

[Wes Beebee]

I'm using JacORB v.1.3.30 with Classpath and
I haven't had any trouble with it (just been 
using basic RMI).

--- Brian Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sascha Brawer <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > However, we'd need to do a lot more for this to
> become useful. Maybe this
> > is obvious to everyone on the list, but in case it
> isn't, let me outline
> > what would be needed for CORBA support:
> > 
> > 1. Use an IDL-to-Java compiler tool (like Sun's
> idlj) to generate
> > Java code for standard IDL files provided by the
> OMG. For example,
> > package org.omg.IOP is derived from IDL, and not
> directly available
> > at ftp.omg.org/pub/ javartf/.
> > 
> >    Having done this, we'd have roughly the same as
> is documented on
> > the Javadoc pages for Sun's J2SE 1.4.  AFAIK, this
> should be enough
> > to run an ORB on a Classpath-based JRE.
> 
> That would be good.
>  
> > 2. Provide an actual implementation for all those
> interfaces and
> > abstract classes.  
> 
> I didn't think the JDK actually provided an ORB.  To
> my knowledge
> everyone goes to a vendor for an ORB implementation.
>  My lack of
> actually using CORBA from Java is showing here.
> 
> > 3. Write a GNU version of an IDL-to-Java compiler
> (i.e., a replacement
> > for idlj).
> 
> More tools always welcome in the classpath-tools
> subproject.
>  
> > (1) without (2) is somewhat useful: users could
> run CORBA applications if
> > they license an ORB from someone. Also, (1) is a
> prerequisite for
> > supporting CORBA in Classpath.  But the big amount
> of work is (2).
> > 
> > By the way, could we legally use Sun's idlj for
> (1), or do we have to do
> > (3) first?
> 
> Yes, you can use idlj or javah as needed.
> -- 
> Brian Jones <address@hidden>
> 
> 
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