Re: Objective-C

[Chris Wareham <chris wareham iosystems co uk>]

Adam Williams wrote:
>>>I'm playing around with OpenGroupware & CORBA - we've been looking for a
>>>Groupware package and have internal CORBA systems.  But OpenGroupware is
>>>written in Objective-C.  I google'd around a bit and didn't find a whole
>>>lot of information concerning language bindings between ORBit2 and
>>>Objective-C and was wondering what the "status" was?
>>
>>	AFAIK there is no objective C binding for ORBit2 - however, you should
>>be able to use any CORBA binding that exists for Objective C against
>>ORBit2 - due to the miracle of the GIOP, [ although you'll prolly need
>>to open up a local TCP/IP port to do that ].
> 
> 
> There doesn't appear to be any CORBA bindings for ObjC, for any ORB. :(
> 
> I'm thinking I'll have to create a C/C++ wrapper for the libraries.
> 

As Objective-C is a true superset of C (unlike C++), you could use ORBit
via its C binding. I haven't tried that myself, but as long as none of
the public symbols used by ORBit clash with ObjC keywords then you'll be
fine.

Chris