Re: ORBit EventChannel status?

[Alejandro Imass <aimass aimass org>]

Bill Haneman wrote:

> 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
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Regards,
Alejandro Imass
Caracas, Venezuela