The fact of the ioser* native libs was already (rather gently) pointed out
to me in a private email earlier today; wish I'd thought of them before I'd
replied! :)
Seriously, from looking at the DLLs' exported functions, it looks like these
provide some native implementations of IIOPInputStream, IIOPOutputStream,
and a few other classes; any chance, by just the STRANGEST quirk of fate,
that there's a portable 100% Java implementation of these guys running
around? Maybe Sun/IBM can provide a fallback Pure Java implementation for
those platforms without the DLL/so's precompiled? Or else make this part of
the Source download?
(I'm interested in the whole idea from another angle, that of running
RMI-IIOP on Linux.)
Ted Neward
Patterns/C++/Java/CORBA/EJB/COM-DCOM spoken here
http://www.javageeks.com/~tneward
"I don't even speak for myself; my wife won't let me." --Me
-----Original Message-----
From: Oleg Moroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: RMI-IIOP on non-Win/Solaris platforms
>Well, in theory the world is much simpler than it is ;-)
>
>The "executables" part of RMI-IIOP (i.e. rmic, idlj, tnameserv) is quite
>platform-independent - I also tried running these under Linux and it
worked.
>What really matters is the native support for IIOP-compatible
serialization,
>contained in ioser*.dll on WIn32 and ioser*.so on Solaris. As far as I can
>see, there is no pure-Java workaround for this native functionality in the
>current RMI-IIOP release (you'd better ask JavaSoft people, cause I don't
>even have the right to look at it closely, if I understand the license
>properly ;-)))).
>
>--
>Oleg Moroz
>Software Engineer
>Geonix / MetaHood
>
>====
>Ted Neward wrote:
>
>> <THEORY>
>> I haven't tried this, but I believe nothing in RMI-IIOP is purely Win32
or
>> Solaris. Like the exectuables that come with the JDK, the rmic.exe
>> executable is simply a JNI Invocation wrapper around a Java class
>> (sun.rmi.rmic.Main from the iioptools.jar file). tnameserv.exe is a
>wrapper
>> around com.sun.rmi.CosNaming.TransientNameServer, and idl2j.exe is a
>wrapper
>> around the Java class com.sun.idl.toJavaPortable.Compile.
>>
>> Theoretically, if you have a fully-functional JDK 1.2 working on your
>> platform, and you have the RMI-IIOP jars installed, you should be able to
>> run the Java classes directly, instead of through the executable. I've
>done
>> it with the rmic compiler, and I don't believe the executables add
>anything
>> of major importance--they're just convenient wrappers to avoid having to
>> type "java sun.rmi.rmic.Main" instead of "rmic".)
>> </THEORY>
>>
>> Assuming that theory holds true, nothing in RMI-IIOP (or any of its
>related
>> technologies) should be platform-specific in any way.
>>
>> Ted Neward
>> Patterns/C++/Java/CORBA/EJB/COM-DCOM spoken here
>> http://www.javageeks.com/~tneward
>> "I don't even speak for myself; my wife won't let me." --Me
>
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