Hi, I've developed first version of SOAPORB / IDL2SOAP. This is lightweight ORB working over SOAP using Apache family of products. Basically, the idea is very simple: replace CORBA/IIOP with CORBA over SOAP/HTTP/SMTP/... Distribution includes IDL2SOAP Compiler and simple SOAPORB. Currently compiler has number of limitaions in IDL-to-SOAP mappings. By now I do not support: Any, unions, fixed types, arrays and some other CORBA extensions. I've developed first version using Apache tools (SOAP, Tomcat). I have only IDL-to-JAVA mappings. I am planning to add support for C++ and C# (.NET) later. I think, maybe somebody will be interested. That's why I posted anouncment in that mailing list. You can download and try it from my home page: http://www.corbaserver.com/ Distibution includes all Apache libraries (versions I was using in development). This is my personal effort. I am doing it for fun when I have free time (almoust never), cos my full time job is pretty boring and this is king of my hobby. I've developed everything from scratch. I am expecting big number of bugs in that implementation. But I would like to hear if somebody finds my idea attractive. I will try to support it and add new features as much as I can. This is not a CORBA replacement. It's probably 100 times slower that CORBA. My point was to give a change existing CORBA IDL programms communicate over the internet using something simple like SOAP without changing interface. I have automatic support for Apache SOAP deployment descriptors. All you need id generate SOAP stubs/skeletons using IDL2SOAP, everything else is pretty same as CORBA programming. Differences: Server side: instead of running server standalone or under ORB deamon (like orbixd/IONA, SamrtAgent/VisiBroker, orbd/JDK1.4) you deploy it on Apache SOAP RPC Servlet. Client side: similar to CORBA client programming, currently has .bing method to connect to server (Apache SOAP RPC Servlet) Let me know if somebody interested in such things. I really need your feedback. Sincerely, Nikolay Barkhatov emails: SOAPORB related: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDL2SOAP related: [EMAIL PROTECTED] personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home pages / distribution: http://www.corbaserver.com/
