Re: the GNORBA library

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

Joerg,

   I understand your motivations for not linking against ORBit, OAF
and Gnorba.  That being said:

   1. Some applications currently link with Gnorba, and they will
      likely do so in GNOME 1.4 (Gnome Terminal and the Panel are the
      only ones I can think of).

   2. Pretty much everything else in 1.4 will be using OAF.  This
      release is probably the first one that is making serious use of
      CORBA.  In the past we have mostly done small things with
      it only.

> Is there a possibility to get the NamingService IOR somehow without the 
> GNORBA library ?
> Is there a possibility to startup CORBA servers just over IIOP ?

yes, this is possible.  You could duplicate the bits of code that have
to deal with object activation and just use plain IIOP over unix
sockets (we use a special "enhanced" IOR encoding to point to this
unix socket in ORBit that you would have to support as well).

Miguel.