I would suggest to use CORBA wrapper above your C functions .
Amit
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:05:36 -0600, paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We are looking very seriously at switching our app to an EJB architecture,
>but the core functionality is provided by a C native library.
>
>There have been suggestions to use "helper objects" which can use JNI, but
>how does this work? how does the EJB talk to the helper object, where does
>it live, etc?
>
>I have read suggestions on this list to write a connector, see:
>http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9909&L=ejb-interest&F=&S=&P=24
>948
>
>but I'm thinking that this might be a problem since our C library needs to
>keep some state.
>
>I have also read a suggestion to change the permissions in the
>server.policy
>file, see:
>http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9910&L=ejb-interest&P=R38058
>
>We are looking at Allaire JRun 3.0 and BEA WebLogic, will either/both of
>these allow us to change to policy to allow JNI calls?
>
>Is this a problem? Should we not be using EJB at all then?? We can live
>with doing something that is against the EJB spec as long as it will work
>with our application server.
>
>Thanks,
>Paul
>
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