corba the right thing ?

[Dennis Lubert <plasmahh gmx net>]

Hello people,

were currently trying to figure out what RPC like environment is the right 
one, and went over CORBA and Orbit. We would like to do some (more or less) 
objet oriented and fast remote calling, and thought we could use corba for 
it. But since were no experts in it, we decided to ask some experts if it 
can do what we need (or easily be extended to do so, we could also hack the 
current implementation if needed).

So I will tell here in some unordered way what we need, and would like you 
to give some comments if corba/orbit/orbitcpp is the right tool to do the job.

We want to do some connection management of our own. Like allowing access 
on a host base. Using out own connections over bluetooth or industrial 
network protocols we have available (all encapsulated into one interface on 
our side). We would also like to have some objects visible/accesible only 
to certain hosts, only locally, or only to hosts with trusted SSL keys. So 
this also means we want SSL encrypted connection with our own certificate 
management. Connections on our side currently can migrate silently from one 
medium to another (in some limited way) so this should be possible too for 
the object-connections. Our objects have all unique IDs which shall make it 
possible to find them somewhere in the network, if they are connected. Like 
a Sensor can be connected to another unknown computer, and through some 
directory service we find it just by uid. We have also some different 
interface which generally provide certain functionality. We would also like 
to have some kind of directory service where we can search for certain 
features. Maybe its built into corba somehow, or we can also realize it as 
objects. We also would like to have some proxying feature, so hosts can be 
asked to proxy connections if a direct one isnt possible...

It would be nice if someone can tell me if ORBit2 (cpp) is the right tool 
to do the job. If it isnt, it would be even better if someone can tell me 
if there is a tool that can do the job.

thanx in advance

Dennis

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