Andy Piper wrote:
At 04:26 PM 10/26/2005, Rick McGuire wrote:
The most critical need right now is to have a replacement to the Sun
ORB that would allow portability to other JVM impelementations. The
lack of a full-function compliant ORB is the main factor locking
Geronimo in to the Sun 1.4.2 JVM.
I think the general view of the CORBA support is that of a "necessary
evil". It is required for J2EE certifcation, but is not generally
seen as critical to most Geronimo deployments. My personal view of
the priorities is "get it working, get it portable". Issues such as
additional uses or higher peformance are things to consider after the
primary requirements are fullfilled.
Can I ask why portability is critical? Most VM's (with one notable
exception) use the Sun ORB so depending on it doesn't seem such a big
deal to me, especially if its a necessary evil. I agree support for
J2SE 5.0 is essential, but its pretty easy to write code that supports
both 1.4 and 5.0 ORBs.
Actually, then don't. The IBM JVM certainly doesn't, and I don't
believe JRocket does either. And it is not particularly easy to write
code code that supports both 1.4 and 5.0 Sun ORBs because of
difficulties hooking in the SSL support. You also run into issues
trying to build the code, since for any given JVM, only one of the
versions of the ORB adaptors will compile correctly.
andy
