>>>>> "Audrius" == Meskauskas Audrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Audrius> The development of the CORBA Internet Inter-ORB Protocol Audrius> (IIOP) in our GNU Classpath project is not so sad as it may Audrius> be seen. I have just finished and released the first working Audrius> prototype of our ORB. Congratulations, that is awesome. Audrius> After doing the beginning, I really expect more developers to Audrius> join. I don't want to stop your gusto, but honestly I am skeptical that folks will show up wanting to work on CORBA. I think most freedom-loving java folks just go with JacORB or OpenORB. Audrius> We do not have the IDL to java compiler (idlj) yet. However I would Audrius> like to pay your attention that IDL compiler and CORBA implementation Audrius> must be fitted to each other. It would be an interesting work to Audrius> inspect JackORB's IDL compiler, checking if its generated code can run Audrius> with Gnu Classpath prototype and, if no, that kind of adaptations are Audrius> required. I did not even checked yet how easy to separate it from the Audrius> rest of JackORB. The development of our own IDL compiler was in my Audrius> immediate future plans, but if we can separate and adapth the JacjORBs Audrius> compiler, this may not be worthwhile. I was wondering whether we require an implementation in java for some reason. E.g., doesn't ORBit have an IDL compiler as well? Audrius> Several months ago, when all CORBA was still "0% - dark red" in the Audrius> status review, it was time for somebody to negotiate, maybe Classpath Audrius> could accept the CORBA implementation, having the different license Audrius> than the rest of the project. Now, I think, this time has been Audrius> passed. On the 1.4 comparison page there is still a huge swath of red for org.omg.*. On the other hand, you've been making very rapid progress. Could you talk a bit about the things that are still missing, how difficult they are, etc? Tom _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
