Re: FYI: Free CORBA 2 ORB - omniORB 2.4.0 is now released.

[Tom Tromey <tromey creche cygnus com>]

Jason> One general CORBA question though.  How specific are the
Jason> idlto{lang} compilers to certain ORBS.  The way I understand it
Jason> is that the idl to language mappings are defined by OMG.  The
Jason> idl to language compilers convert the idl using this mapping.
Jason> So....does this actually tie a idlto{lang} compiler to a
Jason> certain ORB?

The stub generators are specific to the particular ORB.  That's
because they generate stub functions, which necessarily know
implementation details about the ORB.

The OMG specifies the mapping from IDL to the names of the generated
stub functions.  It doesn't specify how these stub functions work.

Tom