CORBA + vbscript ?
Martin T.
I'm faced with the problem that we would like to move away from COM as
the communication layer. The C++ and Python parts are covered, however
we have a significant amount of users that connect via vbscript/ActiveX,
and we can't just tell them to learn Python or Ruby :-)
I couldn't find anything useful on omg.org or
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_object_request_brokers.html ...
Can anyone provide some info/links/opinion on how to hook up vbscript to
CORBA?
cheers,
Martin
Ciaran McHale
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Some CORBA products include a COM-to-CORBA gateway. With one of
these, you can convert CORBA IDL definitions into equivalent
Microsoft IDL definitions, and then write a Visual Basic client that
*thinks* it is talking to a COM server. In fact, the Visual Basic
client talks to the COM-to-CORBA gateway, which delegates the
requests to a back-end CORBA server.
The Orbix product from the company formerly known as IONA (now owned
by Progress Software) provides a COM-to-CORBA gateway; it's called
"COMet". You can find its documentation online:
http://www.iona.com/support/docs/orbix/6.3/develop/comet/comet.pdf
I *think* other CORBA vendors also provide COM-to-CORBA gateways,
but I couldn't say which ones do off the top of my head. I'm guessing
you could find out with a Google search or browsing the websites of
some CORBA vendors. I don't know if any of the open-source CORBA
implementations provide a COM-to-CORBA gateway. Perhaps somebody else
on this newsgroup knows.
Disclaimer: I work for IONA/Progress, but I've never used COMet.
Regards,
Ciaran.
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Johnny Willemsen
We are looking already a long way to make a C#/.NET wrapper around TAO so
that you can use it from more languages. It would be an option to see if
that can also be done for vbscript
Johnny
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