Tyson Dowd writes:
> Of course you'll need to check on the exact status of ORBit. When
> we started work on MCORBA it was very very rough.
Given that GNOME is coming into use, it has presumably advanced a lot. From the
FAQ at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/birney/orbit-html/book1.htm :
Is ORBit stable?
ORBit is used in pretty much any GNOME application, which gives quite some
testing for the features used.
Other features have seen little or no testing.
Does ORBit work with other ORBs?
Yes. This is one of the primary features of CORBA, and available through the
Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP). There is one pitfall: ORBit has a
proprietary security mechanism to authenticate clients. If interoperability
is desired then you might have to figure out a work around for this
I've got GNOME on my laptop, and it seems to work very nicely.
> If enough people are interested (say 5 or more) in starting a mailing
> list on the topic of FFIs, component interfaces, etc for declarative
> languages (Haskell and Mercury come to mind) then I would be interested.
> (I chose 5 because I think I already know 5 people who might be
> interested in the topic).
I'm interested in seeing a CORBA binding for Haskell. I've had some thoughts
along the lines of what you described for Mercury (letting a C/C++ wrapper do
most of the CORBA work). But I don't have time to contribute much to such a
project at the moment.
If enough people are interested, I would be happy to host the mailing list. I
can also provide www, remote CVS and GNATS, should the need arise.
Tim
