There is an option 3, which we did not pursue because of time
constraints, fix and use OpenORB.
Rick, I'm glad to hear that you're working on making our interop code
more portable. It's hard work and it definitely needs to be done. I'm
also glad to see that you're discussing your ideas w/ the community; you
are an example for us all.
I am happy to help out where I can. Can you file a Jira issue so that
people know that you're cleaning up that part of the universe?
Regards,
Alan
On 7/1/2005 2:20 AM, Rick McGuire wrote:
I would state the options "use the ORB in the JVM" or "use some other
open source implementation". Currently, Geronimo is using the Sun
1.4.2 ORB, and the OpenORB code is going to be removed very shortly.
Unfortunately, the Geronimo code wrapped around the Sun ORB directly
references Sun internal ORB classes (and in a couple cases, subclasses
major ORB classes), so it is highly release dependent. For example,
the current code won't compile cleanly on Sun's Java 5, or IBM's
1.4.2, because the underlying ORB code is completely different.
Currently, I see two different solutions to this problem: 1) Write a
different JVM-specific adaptor for each environment we wish to
support, or 2) Try to find a means of implementing the current
function using completely portable interceptor code.
Solution 1) presents an interesting build problem, because regardless
of which JVM you used to build Geronimo, at least one of the adaptors
will fail to build because the required classes wouldn't be present.
I still hopeful that solution 2) is possible, but I'm guessing that we
might still end up with some small piece of JVM-specific code.
Rick
Jacek Laskowski wrote:
Hi,
I wonder what options do we have to use as a CORBA implementation in
Geronimo (as a ASF project). I'm not familiar with the nuances of
miscellaneous licenses, but unless I'm mistaken we don't have too
much choices - Sun's ORB or OpenORB, right? Again, unless I'm
mistaken if I were to be asked I'd say we ain't too happy with both,
but couldn't say why :( Wiki is silent on this, too.
Do we have to build our own CORBA implementation...well, I remember
Dain has been working on CORBA stuff in OpenEJB. Is it a complete
rewrite or a wrapper around OpenORB. Hmm, but I also remember we
talked about OpenORB troubles.
Yes, I'm lost and asking for a help - could anyone answer where we
are with the CORBA stuff?
Jacek
