Hi Christoph,
just to reiterate/follow up what Simon already said,
the front-end part of this puzzle is already in there.
(George Russell in your dept. used this OMG IDL
front-end for some UniForm work sometime ago, I believe.)
I played around with a CORBA (DII) binding half a year
ago which packaged up a Haskell app as a CORBA object,
but never got around to completing it (and I've
subsequently lost the source :( ) Anyway, it wasn't
more than a day's work to get that prototype to work,
so constructing a fully functional CORBA binding should
make for a nice student project.
If you need any help / have Qs regarding the source
(use the repository version), please just drop me an
e-mail.
hth
--sigbjorn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Peyton-Jones
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 03:21
> To: 'Christoph Lueth'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Sigbjorn Finne
> Subject: RE: H/Direct Contact
>
>
> Christoph
>
> Sigbjorn Finne is the implementor of HDirect. While he
> is now focusing most of his attention on other things, he remains
> the HDirect supremo, and you should definitely talk to him first.
> I'm ccing him.
>
> I believe that Sigbjorn has already invested quite a bit of
> effort in CORBA-ising HDirect. In particular, I believe that
> it parses CORBA
> IDL. But I don't think it generates Haskell wrapper code to allow
> Haskell programs to talk to CORBA objects. Sigbjorn will be able
> to be much more specific than me.
>
> It would be great if you could make Haskell programs talk to CORBA
> easily, and HDirect is certainly the way to go. Please keep
> me posted.
>
> Simon
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Christoph Lueth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> | Sent: 31 May 2000 11:04
> | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | Subject: H/Direct Contact
> |
> |
> |
> | Dear Glasgow Haskell people,
> |
> | I have a couple of students here who want to extend H/Direct to
> | generate support for CORBA (i.e. have it generate stubs and
> skeletons
> | to encapsulate Haskell programs as CORBA objects). Who is
> the contact
> | person for any queries about H/Direct that might arise during this
> | undertaking? Is there anybody who is already doing such a thing, or
> | has tried in the past but failed? Is there anything besides the
> | official documentation that we should know?
> |
> | Also, which version of H/Direct should we build on, the
> | latest from the repository, or the source distribution from the
> | H/Direct page (or is there no difference)?
> |
> | Thanks in advance for any answers.
> |
> | Best regards,
> | --Christoph Lüth.
> |
>
