On 02/03/12 13:28, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Mar 1, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Geoffrey Biggs<geoffrey.bi...@aist.go.jp> wrote:
On 02/03/12 10:54, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/1/2012 4:43 PM, Geoffrey Biggs wrote:
Morning all,
In a project just starting, we want to use D (for its safety, amongst
other
things). However, we also need to connect to distributed objects that
have CORBA
interfaces. I did a search, and the most recent mention of CORBA and D
that I
could find is a post to this list nearly 5 years ago:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Using_CORBA_with_D_55285.html
The linked project is still just as empty now as it was then.
Does anyone know of any existing approaches to using CORBA from D that
have
perhaps appeared since then? If there isn't a direct implementation,
what are
the chances of using a C++ library such as omniORB from D?
Isn't CORBA based on COM? D supports COM interfaces.
Are you referring to Microsoft's COM? If so, then I don't *think* there's any
connection. CORBA and Microsoft's COM/DCOM are not compatible. CORBA uses a
different (standardised, for what that's worth) distribution protocol to DCOM.
I haven't heard of one. Does omniORB use a pre-compiler? This would be a great
use of CTFE in a native D implementation.
Yes, there's the omniidl IDL compiler, to go from OMG IDL to C++ objects
(or Python objects, if you're using omniORB-py). Unfortunately, the code
it produces is enough to make you go blind, so it's not something I
would want to write D bindings for manually.
Geoff
