Bruno Boettcher wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> i wanted to distribute the simulator i am writing with rmi, was then pointed
> out that it would be a lot better if i would use CORBA, i have read a book
> about it, and in fact this seems to be true....
>
> Now RMI is bundled with the JDK, as far as i have seen the official CORBA/Java
> bindings will appear in the 1.2 JDK, but since it is unsure when it will be
> available on linux (and especially since we have some Alphas here that i would
> like to use for the distributed simulation, when available on linux-alpha...) i
> was looking for an implementation i could use immediately and that is able to
> offer me what i need (i didin't really understood how CORBA finds its objects...
> in the Objectcalls i never saw the reference to a specific server....) means: I
> have the paradigm of one client and multiple servers (the client holds the
> circuit description, and the servers hopefully simulate it) and need some sort
> of load balancing.....
>
> And on top of that, since my institute is totally unwilling to pay anything
> (they pretext financial shortcomings....) is should be available for free....
>
> Any chance to find something like this? BTW is anyone here using CORBA in
> conjunction with java?
>
We are using ORBacus (http://www.ooc.com) very successfully with Java
and C++ on the Alpha-Linux platform. It is an excellent product, and
is free for non-commercial use. You'll probably want to look at using
the NamingService for object resolution, which is included with
ORBacus.
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