Re: Some questions on using OAFAID

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On 5 Dec 2000, Mathieu Lacage wrote:

> > I have a CORBA server and client running on separate physical machines. I would
> > like the client to activate a server object by query, similar to:
>
> To get OAF to activate distant servers, you need to register a distant ObjectDirectory
> with your local ActivationContext. I do not think there is any code right now to help
> you do that but to do so, I would suggest writing raw CORBA code and hack oafd on the
> distant machine so that it prints somewhere the IOR of its local ObjectDirectory...
>
> I would be happy to help with this if you have time: just join on irc: irc.gnome.org
> #nautilus, my nickname is 'mathieu'. Perhaps we can even get around to design an API
> to ease this kind of details in liboaf....

gnome-libs HEAD tries to do this automatically (untested).

The main problem is that there is no really simple way to run a program on
a remote machine and get stdin/stdout for it. I don't really support
putting this into OAF itself, due to this problem.

-- Elliot
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