Re: popular CORBA systems ?

From:

Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:50:44 +0100

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On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 23-09-2010 23:15, gk wrote:

can these two be brought under CORBA system now ? I am afraid we
can't because C is not a OO Language . we can' think objects
here...is that correct ?

CORBA is object oriented.

I believe using CORBA from C can be done, but it must be a bit
easier using an object oriented language.

Isn't everything?

Here's the spec for the C binding to CORBA:

http://www.omg.org/spec/C/1.0/

From which i take this example of a mapping. The IDL:

interface example1 {
long op1(in long arg1);
};

The C:

typedef CORBA_Object example1;
extern CORBA_long example1_op1(example1 o, CORBA_long arg1, CORBA_Environment *ev);

It's not entirely dissimilar to the java-to-C mapping embodied in JNI,
actually.

Here's an ORB (possibly two ORBs?) which comes with a C binding:

http://orbit-resource.sourceforge.net/

Just for fun, here's a CORBA binding to WSDL (haven't read, not sure
what that even means):

http://www.omg.org/spec/CORBABINDING/1.0/

tom

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