Arnaud Le Hors wrote: > [...] > > I'd try to > > convince them to stop using IDL to specify DOM and use > > UML instead. > > You're welcome to try on www-dom. I don't remember anybody ever trying > (and I've been on the DOM WG from its beginning).
good ideas to consider, thanks > > (The lack of a standard mapping from UML > > to various implementation languages would then be the > > next problem, though. Hmm.) > > Not sure. We don't actually use any IDL converter. Or rather we have our > own. That's because IDL converters are designed to produce code suitable > for CORBA. The DOM only uses IDL as a formalism to define an API in a > language independent way. we ran into that exact same IDL->Java wall working on the API for X3D. the corba-isms are so extreme that they obfuscate the basic API. Sun's idlj tool works well for CORBA mappings but can't selectively turn them off, unfortunately. Results of X3D IDL API -> Java at http://www.web3d.org/TaskGroups/x3d/sai/SceneAuthoringInterface.html our new strategy: develop a schema to replace DTD, then use XSLT to autogenerate - IDL for spec - corresponding Java interfaces & methods for all elements & attributes - stub Java classes implementing those interfaces, suitable for a sample implementation - door is then open for autogenerating other language mappings, as desired all the best, Don -- Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code UW/Br Root 200 work 831.656.2149 Monterey California 93943-5000 USA fax 831.656.3679 Virtual worlds/underwater robots/Internet http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman
