Re: MS-Windows client to Linux server ?

[Peter Van Osta <pvosta unionbio-eu com>]

Hi,

Thanks to all of you who answered my question about the MS-Windows 
client on MS-Windows for our ORBit Linux server.

Is there a way to build a ".dll" for MS-Windows with ORBit which we 
could provide to customers to build their own client software ? Some 
people have no idea how to deal with CORBA and cannot build their own 
client-software starting from an IDL, so I would like to provide them 
with a prebuilt ".dll" for MS-Windows so we only provide them with the 
".dll" and an API specification from which they can start.

Which compiler should/can we use on MS-Windows (2000, XP) to create such 
a ".dll" ? What about integrating such a ".dll" into MS Visual C++ 
and/or Delphi code ?

Best regards,

Peter Van Osta

Union Biometrica N.V./S.A.
European Scientific Operations (ESO)
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Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 10:42, Peter Van Osta wrote:
> 
>>I have developed an ORBit-based client-server system on Linux, but we 
>>now get a question for linking an MS-windows based client to our Linux 
>>server system.
>>
> 
> 	Of course - if your client writes their control app. in Java - then it
> should be fairly easy; JavaORB interoperates nicely with ORBit2: it's
> the basis of OO.o's accessibility code.
> 
> 
>>Are there other ORBs running under MS-windows which a customer could use 
>>to connect to our ORBit server ? How do we best communicate the IOR string ?
>>
> 
> 	OmniORB also works well under Windows I understand - is LGPL/C++
> though. Transferring the IOR is one of those particularly nasty /
> inscrutible tasks. I think Frank's CorbaLoc stuff might work nicely -
> that is, if the server process can be considered a system-level process.
> 
> 	HTH,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
>