Re: ORBit help

2002-05-31 Thread David Wright
Have you taken a look at CORBA::ORBit? I've used in the past, in conjunction with GNOME::Gnorba (back when gnorba was the preferred interface) to control Gnumeric and it compares favorably to controlling Excel via Win32::OLE. Exactly: the module makes your Perl script a CORBA CLIENT. A modu

Re: ORBit help

2002-05-31 Thread Loren Jordan
As much as I hate to promote pay-for software however http://www.engroom.com/ has a very good c/c++/java/PERL corba orb. It will produce client and server stubs in any/all of these languages. I worked as sysadmin/developer for a company that used this package. you can download it for free a

Re: ORBit help

2002-05-31 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.31 03:08 David Wright wrote: Thanks for your tips. I'm afraid that, given that I know not a single line of Phyton, that's not the way to go for me. I'm a C/C++/Perl guy, and while a nice CORBE client Perl module exists, there doesn't appear to be a CORBA server Perl module. Have

Re: ORBit help

2002-05-31 Thread David Wright
CORBA is far from trivial. I presume you're already a proficient programmer (or something like that). Yes, somewhat proficient. I write developer documentation for a little-known competing standard called COM+ -- one has to pay the bills, you know :-). Thanks for your tips. I'm afraid tha

Re: ORBit help

2002-05-30 Thread dman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:56:20AM -0700, David Wright wrote: | | Help! I am desperately trying to learn to use the ORBit implementation | of CORBA and getting nowhere fast. The only beginners tutorial I can | find is at http://icps.u-strasbg.fr/~genaud/ORBIT/. It's okay, but the | ftp site fro

ORBit help

2002-05-30 Thread David Wright
Help! I am desperately trying to learn to use the ORBit implementation of CORBA and getting nowhere fast. The only beginners tutorial I can find is at http://icps.u-strasbg.fr/~genaud/ORBIT/. It's okay, but the ftp site from which to download its examples seems to be down, and I can't figure