Shashank D. Jha wrote:
> :
> >1. For generic applications, not necessary relevant to CORBA. If this
> >is your intention, you certainly can specify you interface language
> >specifically (for instance, C++ only).
[snip]
> Secondly I want to write applications that are going to use CORBA
> middleware. Doesn't it make sense for the middleware to provide
> uniform system interface as well to enable complete portability of not
> only programming/ development but distribution/ deployment as well.
> If you feel that distribution and deployment of an application is a
> trivial issue refer to "Deployment and configuration spec for CCM
> components".
> At least to an extent those issues can be made much simpler if the
> developer need not write code specific to an os, and this layer is
> abstracted within middleware itself.
There is nothing prevents you from having such a portable OS layer
today. There are tens of them on market. What you need is one, standard
based and widely accepted and supported.
Now, as said in a previous post, OMG does not have the history,
influence, credit on heading a generic specification which have no tie
to CORBA. Therefore, it is not right to have this kind of standard
process leading by OMG. It is highly questionable this standard would
be accepted beyond CORBA community. If other standard bodies, such as
W3C, IETF, TMF, etc. all came out their own C++ OS portable layer, the
result would be none of them be widely accepted and supported. We would
get multiple OS portable layer standards, and each of them was only
backed by very few vendors, and only used within their individual
isolated communities. This result would be no better than what we have
today. We would still have tens of different OS portable layer
implementations around, but all of them started to claim they were
compliant to their own individual standards. I would prefer to call
them "wolf-tickets"!
Therefore, if someone is trying to standardize a C++ OS portable layer,
which has no tie to CORBA, it should be submit to Opengroup, ISO, IEEE
or try ANSI. OMG is not the right group to play this game.
Regards,
Ke
