Re: Difference between ORBIT and Shared Library ?

[Franck Martin <franck sopac org>]

I have downloaded the source code of gnome-db, and it is very interesting. This is
the kind of stuff I want to do. However I'm sceptic about the CORBA stuff.

Ok, the IDL creates CORBA C code, which then gets compiled in a library. But it
seems that the client code still needs the .h from the orbit-idl to learn about the
corba procedures that can be run. Why is that so? Theoritically corba interface
should be able to be called by querying a corba service at run time? Secondly how
does the distributed/network part of corba works through a library.

Is it that the multilanguage part of corba is uniquely done by producing language
biding via the IDL spec?

I'm still confused, and there is no good doc out there, the examples are too
simple...

Cheers
Franck

Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On 23 Mar 2001 01:21:53 +1200, Franck Martin wrote:
> >
> > Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> >
> > > Franck Martin wrote:
> > >
> > > > Difference between ORBIT and Shared Library ?
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to understand the difference between ORBIT and a shared library.
> > > > What are the advantages/disavantage of using CORBA against a shared library
> > > > and its .h file for linking?
> > > >
> > > > I'm getting a bit confused on the issue.
> > >
> > > CORBA is a framework to make Client/Server applications. Here are some links
> > > with
> > > further information:
> > >
> > > http://cgi.omg.org/corba/beginners.html
> > > http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/
> > > http://orbit-resource.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > > - Dietmar
> >
> > Ok, I have read some of the doc, the closest I found was a doc about gda which
> > was a library wrapped around corba.
> >
> are you talking about libgda, part of the gnome-db project (www.gnome-db.org)?
>
> If so, what you're saying is not correct. gda is not a wrapper around
> corba, it is a wrapper around the GDA CORBA interfaces, which are part
> of gnome-db. So it does not wrap CORBA, it wraps a set of CORBA
> interfaces.
>
> cheers
>
> --
> Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> <rodrigo ximian com>
> http://www.gnome-db.org/