Ed,
Ed Roman wrote:
> I've been developing a CORBA client example for my EJB book, and
> unfortunately I'm at a standstill. I'm looking for an EJB server that
> supports CORBA clients connecting to enterprise beans in a relatively
> portable way. The EJB servers I've looked at so far either do not support
> CORBA clients, or have proprietary 'helper methods' you need to call that
> make your client code not portable.
Inprise's EJB server does? It's in early access release since January. Let me
know if you want to be on the beta program. That can be done quickly.
> Are there any vendors out there that supports relatively portable
> client-side CORBA APIs?
Since EJB sits on top of Visibroker 4 you have native CORBA support including:
(RMI over) IIOP, JNDI over CosNaming, JTS/OTS.
> Ideally I'd like a server that will let me:
>
> - Use Java as a client language
you can even write C++ clients :-((
> - Call enterprise beans using portable CORBA APIs
yes.
> - Use IIOP as the transport protocol
yes.
> - Perform Bean lookups via CosNaming
yes.
> - Perform Transactions via JTS/OTS
yes.
> I'm also looking for a good database that I can ship an eval copy of with my
> book. The database needs to have an available JDBC driver that supports all
> transaction isolation levels. The ones I've been playing with for the last
> few months are either not functional enough (cloudscape, MS access), too
> huge/tough to install for a book CD-ROM (oracle), or politically unsound (MS
> sql server:)
Interbase would be a possibility, it's fairly lightweight and has decent JDBC
driver.
Cheers,
Andreas
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