Hi Michael, A little history about harmless... at the beginning I was looking for an open source ORB implementation and I was not interested in start a new project. I found only VBOrb, but the author does not want to support VB.Net; I tried to modify it and I found several problems to recompile VBOrb source code with VB7. I also looked also at mono site and I exchanged messages with David Taylor. . I need to use c# to write client applications of an existing set of servers that use CORBA. I am very near to obtain this result with harmless. In several cases a pure CLR implementation is required. But, related to your remarks, I think point b) is very important, and I could contribuite on that. But this result seems to me very difficult to achieve for mono/.NET VM. I have download Orbit2 and I will give a look.
A question about Orbit: why does not exist a mapping for java? Thanks, Sergio Michael Meeks wrote: >Hi Sergio, > >On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 19:36, Sergio Perani wrote: > > >>I started an implementation of a CORBA ORB for .Net framework, that >>should work also with Mono. >> >> > > It would be great if you could re-use the ORBit2 infrastructure; for >many reasons: > > a) Code re-use, while marshalling is fairly trivial, there is a > great wealth of problems that you can hit, particularly: > * Interoperability - lots of subtlties here > * Profile management - fun stuff here too > * Socket communications - similarly > * Security ... etc. > > b) In-proc ABI, ORBit2 has an ABI that would let C bindings for > Mono objects not go through a complex Marshal to a socket, > de-marshal from a socket [ even in-proc ] process, but do > direct cross language calls, between eg. Guile, Python, > Mono, C > > My main concern is a) really, code-reuse; this is rather more important >to my mind than a 'pure' Mono impl. > > Regards, > > Michael. > > > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
