Re: Corba spec / IDL issues

2005-12-07 Thread Kresten Krab Thorup (Trifork)
+1, I think this is the best solution with the means at hand. Anders should be able to move forward with this next week: do the appropriate changes to the maven2 idlj plugin, and produce a complete patch for the necessary changes to the geronimo/corba-spec module. The maven plugin needs to

Corba spec / IDL issues

2005-12-06 Thread Anders Hessellund Jensen
Hi all, Currently, we need to compile idl files in at least two cases. - The CORBA spec is based on idl. - Interfaces for some test files is also defined in idl. Currently everything is compiled with Suns idlj. This is not satisfactory because of a couple of problems: - Requires Sun JDK.

Re: Corba spec / IDL issues

2005-12-06 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Anders Hessellund Jensen wrote, On 12/6/2005 8:21 AM: Hi all, Currently, we need to compile idl files in at least two cases. - The CORBA spec is based on idl. - Interfaces for some test files is also defined in idl. Currently everything is compiled with Suns idlj. This is not satisfactory

Re: Corba spec / IDL issues

2005-12-06 Thread Dain Sundstrom
On Dec 6, 2005, at 8:56 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: Anders Hessellund Jensen wrote, On 12/6/2005 8:21 AM: Therefore, i propose we use the JacORB idl compiler instead of Suns idlj. This would solve both aforementioned issues. To use it, we would have to bundle it and get it uploaded to the

Re: Corba spec / IDL issues

2005-12-06 Thread Lars Kühne
Alan D. Cabrera wrote: Anders Hessellund Jensen wrote, On 12/6/2005 8:21 AM: Optimally, we would be able to take the idl files directly from OMG. They have published a set of idl files, which can be downloaded here: http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/02-07-02 . These files generally

Re: Corba spec / IDL issues

2005-12-06 Thread Anders Hessellund Jensen
Lars Kühne wrote: This question hasn't been addressed yet. I really don't see the point of maintaining our own copy either. Where did that copy originate - isn't it based on the OMG files anyway? I think the current files originate from the ORB in Trifork P4. Originally, OMG did not

Re: Corba spec / IDL issues

2005-12-06 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
Anders Hessellund Jensen wrote, On 12/6/2005 3:09 PM: Lars Kühne wrote: This question hasn't been addressed yet. I really don't see the point of maintaining our own copy either. Where did that copy originate - isn't it based on the OMG files anyway? I think the current files originate