Re: Newbie: Asynchronous messaging in CORBA -- is it possible?

["Michael Rumpf" <michael rumpfonline de>]

There is indeed a standard, the CORBA Messaging spec., but it has not yet
proven its overally applicability. I think only TAO (The ACE ORB) has
implemented it so far. It is part of the CORBA spec. since CORBA 2.4....

Michael

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Bartlett" <johnnyb@wolfram.com>
To: "ORBit" <orbit-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2001 00:53
Subject: Re: Newbie: Asynchronous messaging in CORBA -- is it possible?


> Is there a service that does that?  It might be more beneficial to create
> a standard service than to implement a custom not-quite-standard one.
>
> Jonathan Bartlett
>
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>
> On 31 Oct 2001, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 23:46, Edgar Hilton wrote:
> > > Hi! I'm a newbie, so please be gentle.
> > >
> > > What is the best way to do the following?
> > >
> > > I have a set of clients and one server using ORBit + C.
> > >
> > > Clients are able to reference all the appropriate objects from the
> > > server without any problems.
> > >
> > > The question is: how can I get the server to trigger some action in
> > > select clients? For example, let's say that I am sitting at the server
> > > machine, and want several of the clients to refresh a list of
> > > parameters.  How can I do this?
> > >
> > you can do it by using listeners, something that is widely used in
> > GNOME.
> >
> > For instance, you could have:
> >
> > interface Server {
> > void connectClient (in Client client);
> > };
> >
> > interface Client {
> > void notify (...);
> > };
> >
> > and have the Client interface be implemented in the client-side, so that
> > it can receive notifications from the server.
> >
> > cheers
> > --
> > Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@gnome-db.org> - <rodrigo@ximian.com>
> > http://www.gnome-db.org/ - http://www.ximian.com/
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