Rick McGuire wrote:
Andy Piper wrote:
At 04:26 PM 10/26/2005, Rick McGuire wrote:
The most critical need right now is to have a replacement to the Sun
ORB that would allow portability to other JVM impelementations. The
lack of a full-function compliant ORB is the main factor locking
Geronimo in to the Sun 1.4.2 JVM.
I think the general view of the CORBA support is that of a
"necessary evil". It is required for J2EE certifcation, but is not
generally seen as critical to most Geronimo deployments. My
personal view of the priorities is "get it working, get it
portable". Issues such as additional uses or higher peformance are
things to consider after the primary requirements are fullfilled.
Can I ask why portability is critical? Most VM's (with one notable
exception) use the Sun ORB so depending on it doesn't seem such a big
deal to me, especially if its a necessary evil. I agree support for
J2SE 5.0 is essential, but its pretty easy to write code that
supports both 1.4 and 5.0 ORBs.
Actually, then don't. The IBM JVM certainly doesn't, and I don't
believe JRocket does either. And it is not particularly easy to write
code code that supports both 1.4 and 5.0 Sun ORBs because of
difficulties hooking in the SSL support. You also run into issues
trying to build the code, since for any given JVM, only one of the
versions of the ORB adaptors will compile correctly.
Technically the J2SE 5.0 reference ORB was supposed to be portable and
interoperable and pluggable as Sun uses a modified version of that ORB
for its own products. I've tried to forget the headaches we had with
CORBA experience with JDK 5.0 but if there is anything I can do to make
the Geronimo completely work with JDK 5.0 I'm all ears
regards
calvin
andy
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