the GNORBA library

[Joerg Budischewski <joerg budischewski germany sun com>]

Hello,

I have some questions concerning your implementation repository. I have 
read your docs concerning GNORBA.

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/guides/corba/html/corba-gnome-gnorba.html

One of my problems is how to retrieve the IOR of the namingservice. I 
could do this using the GNORBA library, but this would require to link 
against the gnorba library and therefor link against the orbit libraries. 
It would like to avoid this, because we want to implement the marshaling 
on our own so that we are as independent as possible from ORBIT (we also 
would like to have an CORBA bridge on e.g. windows).

The information anout the namingservice IOR is taken from the root 
X-Window. Is it possible (or recommended) to access it without the gnorba 
library ? Or is there any other way to retrieve the NamingService IOR 
(maybe from somewhere on the filesystem or so)?

Also we would like to start up gnome processes that are currently not 
running. Therefor we need to access the GOAD. From documentation I know, 
that the proposed way again is the gnorba library, which we would like to 
avoid. Is there a GOAD daemon running in the system, so that we can 
access it via IIOP ?

If not, are there any other suggestions how gnome services can be started 
?

I have heard from a new object activation framework (oaf), that is 
currently under development, but I couldn't find any documentation on it 
on gnome.org. Are there informations somewhere ?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Joerg