Re: bonobo-activation - a plan.

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Louise Miller - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Computer Systems - Engineer
wrote:
> 
> > >         So; if your script could execute a little C program, that we
> > > always install that'd be great; eg. if you run bonobo-activation-run-query
> > > with no args, that will ensure ( by the time it completes ) that the
> > > server is correctly started up.
> > >
> 
> Yes, I done exactly this and it works fine for me , thanks
> 
> > Oh, I forgot to mention - bonobo-activation comes with a program
> > bonobo-activation-client which will activate an arbitrary server for
> > you and print out the IOR. This can be used as a means of integration
> > of last resort.
> >
> > Bill, would that be good enough for your purposes? 

Well, parsing the multi-line output of an exec command doesn't seem much
safer than actually using IDL... but I suppose it can be made to work. 
I still think that we should (eventually) have a language-independant
way of doing activation.

Would it be OK to ask for a command-line option that was a little terser
and in a guaranteed format, for just such hackery?  

> > The command-line
> > tool would take care of launching the server if need be. It would not
> > handle shlib objects very well since it would exit after activation in
> > that case, but perhaps it can be changed to stick around in the case
> > of an shlib server.
> >
> >  - Maciej
> >
> 
> I'm trying to use the activation-client program, but I am a little unsure
> of its usage. I do not understand what is meant by the -s argument and
> the application will not run without it set. Some examples would be great.
> 
> Thanks
> Louise