Hi Bob, Back in my working days we used CORBA a bunch.
Now the guys tell me they use the latest version of HTML to do what CORBA tried to do. Don't know the details but do know they are wildly successful! Best regards, Rob AB7CF -- Bob Cowdery <b...@g3ukb.co.uk> wrote: To all you software guys out there. Has anyone tried, played with or preferably used in anger, Ice from ZeroC - http://www.zeroc.com/. It's a comms backbone which takes its roots from CORBA and DCOM but claims to be the working implementation of everything they got wrong! If it does what it says on the tin it could make a very nice bus for the software equivalent of HPSDR. Attractive features are highly performant (their words), cross platform and language bindings to C++, C#, Java, Python, Ruby, VB and a few others, and its GPL otherwise I wouldn't bother to mention it. I did quite a lot with CORBA in the early days and liked having services defined by interfaces. Ice retains that feel and has code generators that create the boiler plate from the IDL. It feels quite familiar to me but I think the real advantage would be language interop in a distributed environment without having to map through some other language to get there. Yes, there are all sorts of caveats around how types are marshaled and the real world may be just as complex as doing it some other way. The examples are quite succinct but the user guide is long! That's why I want to know if anyone has experience before I waste time. Thanks for any replies. Opinions welcome if you have a few minutes to scan over the site. 73 Bob G3UKB _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ ____________________________________________________________ Save $15 on Flowers and Gifts from FTD! Shop now at http://offers.juno.com/TGL1141/?u=http://www.ftd.com/17007 _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/