sun's idltojava converter takes in idl code and spew out "processed" java code. You can look into the java code and you will realized that they will not be much more work converting idl to java code by hand. So cheer up, you can still do corba in linux..... _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]