I must say that I found all the messages in response to my question
quite interesting. Thanks a lot! After I sent my original mail I tried
several things and none has yet quite worked (but I haven't finished my
last set of experiments :-). One thing, though: so much for
standards! In the book `Client/Server Programming with Java and CORBA'
it is mentioned that both Visibroker and JDK1.2 generate `portable'
stubs, meaning that they can be compiled with any other ORB
implementation. Yeah, sure. When I used Visibroker (with the flag
`-portable') it wouldn't compile without its classes (some conflicts
with the bind() methods, I think). Anyway, I decided not to use
Visibroker because (if I am not mistaken) you need to use their OS agent
(a Win* exe file).
My next step was to download and install JacORB, which seems quite nice.
But, again, the stubs generated by its idl2j wouldn't compile without
the jacorb classes (they actually make explicit references to the jacorb
package). No problem, if I stick to JacORB, I guess. I haven't had
enough time to play with it yet, so my initial (failed) experiments
don't prove much (I couldn't connect to the NameService, which is the
one from the omniORB installation). I think it is just a matter of
reading the manual and setting the configuration right, which I won't
have time to do until the weekend.
By the way, I personally find it comic (which is not the same as funny)
that both Visibroker and JDK1.2 claim to be `pure Java' but they provide
you with other tools that are in machine-dependent object format
(idltojava, osagent, etc.)! People at JavaSoft should be dying of shame
...
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Francisco Figueirido, Ph.D. Phone: (212)317-7680
Quantitative Analyst Fax: (212)317-7601
Imagine Software, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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New York, NY 10017
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