Re: the GNORBA library

[Mathieu Lacage <mathieu eazel com>]

Joerg Budischewski <joerg budischewski germany sun com> writes:

> 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 
> ?

Gnorba is dead :)

OAF is the current solution to those problems :)

there is fairly good documentation in OAF: cvs module oaf or more simply
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/oaf/oaf-0.6.1.tar.gz

Mathieu


> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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Mathieu Lacage <mathieu eazel com>