Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-15 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 14-Aug-1998, Timothy Robin BARBOUR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "David" == David Glen JEFFERY [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Depending on how you do it, the choice of ORB may not be David such a huge issue. Our (infantile) Mercury implementation David does not talk to the ORB

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-15 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigbjorn Advice on what's the most appropriate ORB to target Sigbjorn would be greatly appreciated, there's already quite a Sigbjorn selection to choose from (ORBit, Mico, omniORB etc.) omniORB2 is CORBA-2 and IIOP compliant

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-14 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Marko" == Marko Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marko FYI, there is also MICO: Marko http://www.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~mico/ The MICO home page says: The difference to other free imlementations is, that MICO is developed for educational purposes [...] As opposed to use

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-13 Thread Daan Leijen
From: Daan Leijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Allthough we have made a binding now for COM, it would indeed be great if we could also have a CORBA binding; it is of vital importance that Haskell can talk with the outside world and the more languages it knows, the better :-) Since there is a

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-11 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
From: Daan Leijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Allthough we have made a binding now for COM, it would indeed be great if we could also have a CORBA binding; it is of vital importance that Haskell can talk with the outside world and the more languages it knows, the better :-) Since there is a

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-11 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty writes: [snip] Although, you continue with Ideally, it should be possible to substitute COM for any other component technology. Experience may prove otherwise, but implementing an interface to one component technology is a non-trivial amount of work,

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-11 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
From: Sigbjorn Finne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennart Augustsson writes: I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it means that they are rather useless to me. I agree! Mud sticks, so may I suggest you actually

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
From: Timothy Robin BARBOUR [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigbjorn As part of H/Direct, we're going to support something Sigbjorn similar to JNI for the new Hugs/GHC system, see Sigbjorn

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread David Glen JEFFERY
On 09-Aug-1998, Erik Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tim, The Haskell Server page claims that one advantage of COM is that it "ships for free with windows". This suggests that the existence of a genuinely free CORBA ORB has been overlooked. IMHO ignoring CORBA is cutting Haskell off

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Daan Leijen
I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it means that they are rather useless to me. Lets clarify some points: - H/Direct is a OSF DCE IDL compiler which can not only generate COM specific bindings but also for example

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty writes: .. I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it means that they are rather useless to me. Sigh, it's not *based* on proprietary standards - whatever gave you that idea? The IDL compiler

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-09 Thread Erik Meijer
Hi Tim, The Haskell Server page claims that one advantage of COM is that it "ships for free with windows". This suggests that the existence of a genuinely free CORBA ORB has been overlooked. IMHO ignoring CORBA is cutting Haskell off from the open software world (including about 7 million Linux

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-09 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Timothy Robin BARBOUR writes: "Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigbjorn As part of H/Direct, we're going to support something Sigbjorn similar to JNI for the new Hugs/GHC system, see Sigbjornhttp://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/hdirect [...]

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-08 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
"Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigbjorn As part of H/Direct, we're going to support something Sigbjorn similar to JNI for the new Hugs/GHC system, see Sigbjornhttp://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/hdirect [...] Sigbjorn This document expresses the