Re: bonobo-activation - a plan.

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 31Oct2001 05:01PM (-0500), Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > I meant, of course, other than 'exec' ;-)
> 
>         You're going to have the first reference problem however you look
> at it - period. There can be no language independant IDL interface to
> anything, unless it's activated. You can't be garenteed to have activated
> it without an exec - really. I think the exec is possibly the cleanest way
> we have seen to get a handle to oafd / the end result, that doesn't
> involve binding to a C library.

Well, in the future we could reduce the need for exec to merely giving
you access to a language-independent IDL interface for activation.
 
> > It would nice to have public IDL for activation that could be called
> > from any CORBA binding, and this seems like the "right" thing to do
> > for a CORBA-based component environment.
> 
>         Yes; we need something like: bonobo-activation-activate 'query'
> ['sort order'] > IOR with nothing more complex. It should be fairly
> trivial to write this sort of thing. I can do it if Maciej is interested -
> but we need to get a bonobo-activation release out soon.

Are you talking about a command-line tool? I think simplifying the
current bonobo-activation-client would be the way to go on that (no
need for the complex client that I can see). Alternately, it could be
a cut and paste job of the query program.

Either way, you can expect me to hack up a trivial activation
command-line tool within a week at most (need to take care of platform
alpha critical issues first).

 - Maciej