I hope I am not going to get too flamed for posting this, but I have checked :- - the jBoss FAQ "Q. Does jBoss support RMI/IIOP ? A. No" - all postings since I joined the group (no comments on future plans to support IIOP) - the mailing list archive (some questions and answers on the general topic but no concrete answers to some of the questions I wish to pose) ... and not found the answer to the questions I wish to ask. My situation is as follows :- My company is likely to be in scenarios where it is using jBoss as an EJB container to wrap a variety of existing services in enterprise beans (to gain the pooling, scaleability, security, transactions etc... etc...). However, within these scenarios we are very likely to face situations where we have a large number of non-Java, non-JSP clients (e.g. native Windows apps or hand-crafted Perl scripts) that wish to make use of the remote interfaces exposed by these enterprise beans. I can see three broad scenarios to handle this eventuality :- - get hold of the Java stubs as normal and then wrap them into C++ stubs for the native applications (C++, VB or Perl) to access (OK, but a little inelegent and possibly requiring a lot of work per bean) - expose calls into the jBoss container via a "cross-platform" protocol. The two candidates which appeal to people in the C++, VB, Perl world are IIOP or SOAP. - I have started to work with the ZOAP module which looks very promising, especially for the future, and can meet the cross-platform protocol needs I describe nicely. - However, IIOP is well established now and people are used to working with it from all the languages I mention (plus the fact that you can easily reverse compile Java remotes into IDL and back into C++ stubs). They may have ORBs already integrated into their working environments so the learning curve is much shallower. Apologies if I am opening up an age-old, done and dusted discussion (in which case, could someone point me to a reference to that discussion/possibly update the FAQ to prevent posts like this in the future) ... but, if this is still an open topic ... Why is it hard to support IIOP on the wire (technical issues ? no-one has come forward wanting to implement it ?) Is there a general demand amongst users of the mailing list to support the sort of scenarios I lay out above ? How are you handling it now ? Are there in fact plans "behind the scenes" to support IIOP in a future version of jBoss ? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this topic, Pete -- Pete Bennett (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Principal Architect, Synomics Ltd. http://www.synomics.com _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
