Re: Orbit2 Details

[Bowie Owens <bowie owens csiro au>]

yateen joshi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am on a lookout for a CORBA that will satisfy my following requirements. I tried to get the information for the same through various documents on Orbit and Orbit2, but could not find much. It will be appreciated if I get following information (in short ).
>  
Some of your questions will be answered by reading the home page: 
http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/

But here are some answers relating to the C++ bindings. There is, 
however, a separate list for discussing the C++ bindings. It is: 
orbitcpp-list gnome org


> 3. What bindings are supported (e.g. C++, JAVA, C)?
>  
C++ is supported as a thin wrapper around the C binding. Orbitcpp it 
less mature than the C binding but quite capable for many tasks. If you 
find something that you need is not implemented, please email the 
mailing list or post a bug in bugzilla. Lots of things can be sorted out 
quite quickly if we know they aren't wrappered properly.

> 4. Performance
> 	a. Good C++ Speed
>  
The C++ binding is wrapper around the C binding. As such the performance 
will be similar but slightly slower with slightly higher memory consumption.

> 5. Does it provide following features - 
> 	l. C++ STL support
>  
Depends what you mean by support. We don't package a version of the STL 
with orbitcpp but we don't interfere with it either. So you should be 
able to use as much of the standard library as your compiler supports. 
Orbitcpp works well with g++ which comes with an implementation of the 
standard library.

> 	m. C++ design pattern support
>  
Again, we don't provide any implementations of any design patterns but 
we shouldn't be interfering with any code or libraries you want to make 
use of.

The source code is freely available so it is a good idea for you to 
download it and try using the code yourself.

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