Re: Perl and ORBit2

[Alex Hornby <alex anvil com>]

Hi Kashif,

The perl ORBit1 mapping seems fairly complete to me, and I'm using it
for control of production servers (the servers are C++ and export a
CORBA interface).

If you are going to use the ORBit1 binding look at the CPAN search pages
for version 0.4.7 - the CPAN maintains wouldn't let Huw (the guy that
did the last release) put them in the normal by-module hierarchy for
some reason so there is an old 0.4.3 version there.

If you'd like to update it to ORBit2 then Michael is right the the
python ORBit bindings will be a good source of "inspiration" :).

If you do go ahead, please try to keep the perl API to the
CORBA::ORBit::mapping POD document as there are enough incompatible perl
CORBA mappings already :)

I can offer to test any perl ORBit2 binding but time constraints mean
that's likely to be all I could help with.

Cheers,
Alex.

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 09:13, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Kashif,
> 
> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 00:04, Kashif Shaikh wrote:
> > Hello everyone I'm newcomer to this list. I'm trying to evaluate if I
> > should go the CORBA route and wrap a CORBA interface around my many
> > daemons written in different languages, but in doing so would like to
> > know how good Perl copes with ORBit.
> 
> 	There is an old, old perl binding for ORBit[1] that works but is fairly
> incomplete, and nothing about ORBit1 is supported / maintained these
> days so ...
> 
> > Now before anyone says "you should use python, java, etc", I already
> > have a perl component to my application and don't have any intention to
> > re-write it:)
> 
> 	;-) of course, the python bindings work quite nicely. OTOH - it
> shouldn't be too hard to write a good, and fairly complete binding for
> ORBit2 - if you graunch James's py-orbit and Owen's old ORBit-perl.
> 
> > [Aside: Has ORBit2 been OMG-approved CORBA implementation for C,C++,
> > and Python?]
> 
> 	We don't have any level of certification AFAIK, but we try to stick
> nearby the spec.
> 
> 	HTH,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
> -- 
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