Re: ORBit EventChannel status?

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman ireland sun com>]

Hi Sebastian/all:

I really hope I am not hearing you correctly :-(

ORBit (or, rather, CORBA) is central to our accessibility
architecture, but push-model event support of some kind is essential. 
Even a partial implementation would be helpful - if it's not in ORBit
we'll have to roll our own... even if it's domain-specific, rather
than a general implementation of CORBA events.

Suggestions are very welcome.

Regards,


-Bill

Sebastian Wilhelmi wrote:
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> > I understand that there was some work in the past 6 months or so on
> > implementing CORBA event support in ORBit (at least push model).
> >
> > Can someone tell me the status of that work and point me to a working
> > implementation (preferably with a small bit of sample code)?   I'd
> > also like to know whether typed events are/will soon be
> > supported (I could get by with untyped events, I suppose).
> 
> I started the event server some 2 years ago. But I soon realised, that doing
> it right would be quite hard. That was one of the reasons I started writing
> ORBit-mt. Since then, however, I relalized, that probably a solution with
> DII/DSI would be more portable and more efficient. Unfortunately I have no
> time to write it now.
> 
> The ruins of an event server in ORBit really should be washed away from the
> surface of the earth.....
> 
> Bye,
> Sebastian

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Bill Haneman
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland