Re: IIOP tools: Working Classpath CORBA prototype released.

[Dalibor Topic]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > "Audrius" == Meskauskas Audrius <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> Audrius> The development of the CORBA Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
> Audrius> (IIOP) in our GNU Classpath project is not so sad as it may
> Audrius> be seen. I have just finished and released the first working
> Audrius> prototype of our ORB.
>
> Congratulations, that is awesome.
>
> Audrius> After doing the beginning, I really expect more developers to
> Audrius> join.
>
> I don't want to stop your gusto, but honestly I am skeptical that
> folks will show up wanting to work on CORBA.  I think most
> freedom-loving java folks just go with JacORB or OpenORB.

the original OpenORB is pretty much dead, afaik. There is a 'community 
openorb' on source forge, but that one has a project specific 
BSD-license[1] that comes with the GPL-incompatible adveritising clause.

JacORB otoh, has been used by both JBoss and JOnAS to get the J2EE 
certification (instead of the builtin thing in Sun's implementation), so 
it seems to work quite well. If there is a chance to use that, and 
convince JacORB developers to work together with Audrius on bringing 
JacORB closer into Classpath, that would be pretty cool, I think, in 
particular as JacORB is under the LGPL, which is GPL comapatible :)

> Audrius> Several months ago, when all CORBA was still "0% - dark red" in the
> Audrius> status review, it was time for somebody to negotiate, maybe Classpath
> Audrius> could accept the CORBA implementation, having the different license
> Audrius> than the rest of the project. Now, I think, this time has been
> Audrius> passed.
>
> On the 1.4 comparison page there is still a huge swath of red for
> org.omg.*.  On the other hand, you've been making very rapid progress.
> Could you talk a bit about the things that are still missing, how
> difficult they are, etc?

Thanks for making the great progress on the implementation, Audrius! I 
think it would be very interesting to ask the JacORB people to 
contribute to GNU Classpath as well, and complement Audrius's 
implementation with their tools. I know next to nothing about corba 
about myself, though, so I don't know how feasible that is. :)

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] http://openorb.sourceforge.net/license.txt