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Douglas C. Schmidt  
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 More options May 28 2005, 10:57 am
Newsgroups: comp.object.corba
From: schm...@ace.cs.wustl.edu (Douglas C. Schmidt)
Date: 28 May 2005 09:57:10 -0500
Local: Sat, May 28 2005 10:57 am
Subject: Re: What is Corba used for?
Hi,

>> I agree that system portability is not an issue addressed by CORBA.
>> But it may address that as well? right..?After all, if we are looking
>> for truly distributed software systems, we should have mechanism to
>> develop such system as welll uniformly?

>> So my version is it should not take much for OMG to extend its
>> specification to cover abstraction over underlying os as well, as it
>> affects distribution, deployment etc.

There have been various efforts in the OMG to standardize this layer
of abstraction.  OCI recently presented a proposal for using portions
of ACE to accomplish this.  It's not very technically hard to do this
- the trick is to get the other ORB vendors to agree.  Until they do,
of course, you can simply use ACE as a portability layer within your
client and servant implementations (it should work with any C++ ORB)
and get the same effect.

>> My view is mapping may not be standardaized suppose. but the names of
>> stubs/skeleton files can be standardized so that we dont have to change
>> the name everytime we change ORB at least? And anyway it doesnt affects
>> any other behaviour right? Just a name change.

I agree that it would be a good idea to standard this sort of stuff.
While we're waiting for that to happen, you can already accomplish
your objectives by using the CORBA-conf tool at

http://corbaconf.kiev.ua

Take care,

        Doug

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