Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-15 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
> "Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sigbjorn> Advice on what's the most appropriate ORB to target Sigbjorn> would be greatly appreciated, there's already quite a Sigbjorn> selection to choose from (ORBit, Mico, omniORB etc.) omniORB2 is CORBA-2 and IIOP com

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-14 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 14-Aug-1998, Timothy Robin BARBOUR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "David" == David Glen JEFFERY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David> Depending on how you do it, the choice of ORB may not be > David> such a huge issue. Our (infantile) Mercury implementation > David> does not t

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-14 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
> "Marko" == Marko Schuetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marko> FYI, there is also MICO: Marko> http://www.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~mico/ The MICO home page says: The difference to other free imlementations is, that MICO is developed for educational purposes [...] As opposed

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-14 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
> "David" == David Glen JEFFERY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Depending on how you do it, the choice of ORB may not be David> such a huge issue. Our (infantile) Mercury implementation David> does not talk to the ORB directly, but rather goes via C++ David> stubs and skele

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-13 Thread Daan Leijen
>From: Daan Leijen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >[...] >> Allthough we have made a binding now for COM, it would indeed be great >> if we could also have a CORBA binding; it is of vital importance that >> Haskell can talk with the outside world and the more languages it knows, the >> better :-) >> Since

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-11 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
From: Daan Leijen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > Allthough we have made a binding now for COM, it would indeed be great > if we could also have a CORBA binding; it is of vital importance that > Haskell can talk with the outside world and the more languages it knows, the > better :-) > Since there is

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-11 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
From: Sigbjorn Finne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Lennart Augustsson writes: > > > > > I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., > > > H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it > > > means that they are rather useless to me. > > I agree! > > > > Mud sticks, so may I sugge

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-11 Thread Marko Schuetz
> "Erik" == Erik Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Erik> Hi Tim, >> The Haskell Server page claims that one advantage of COM is that it >> "ships for free with windows". This suggests that the existence of a >> genuinely free CORBA ORB has been overlooked. >> >> IMHO ignoring CORBA is cutti

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-11 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty writes: > [snip] > > Although, you continue with > > Ideally, it should be possible to substitute COM for any > other component technology. Experience may prove > otherwise, but implementing an interface to one component > technology is a non-trivial amount of

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread David Glen JEFFERY
On 09-Aug-1998, Erik Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > >The Haskell Server page claims that one advantage of COM is that it > >"ships for free with windows". This suggests that the existence of a > >genuinely free CORBA ORB has been overlooked. > > > >IMHO ignoring CORBA is cutting

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Daan Leijen
> I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., > H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it > means that they are rather useless to me. > Lets clarify some points: - H/Direct is a OSF DCE IDL compiler which can not only generate COM specific bindings but also for example

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
From: Timothy Robin BARBOUR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sigbjorn> As part of H/Direct, we're going to support something > Sigbjorn> similar to JNI for the new Hugs/GHC system, see > > Sigbjorn>http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Lennart Augustsson writes: > > > I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., > > H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it > > means that they are rather useless to me. > I agree! > Mud sticks, so may I suggest you actually take the time to read the available docs b

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Lennart Augustsson
> I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., > H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it > means that they are rather useless to me. I agree! -- Lennart

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty writes: > .. > > I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., > H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it > means that they are rather useless to me. > Sigh, it's not *based* on proprietary standards - whatever gave you that idea? The IDL com

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-09 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Timothy Robin BARBOUR writes: > > "Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sigbjorn> As part of H/Direct, we're going to support something > Sigbjorn> similar to JNI for the new Hugs/GHC system, see > > Sigbjorn>http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/hdire

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-09 Thread Erik Meijer
Hi Tim, >The Haskell Server page claims that one advantage of COM is that it >"ships for free with windows". This suggests that the existence of a >genuinely free CORBA ORB has been overlooked. > >IMHO ignoring CORBA is cutting Haskell off from the open software >world (including about 7 million

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-08 Thread Timothy Robin BARBOUR
> "Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sigbjorn> As part of H/Direct, we're going to support something Sigbjorn> similar to JNI for the new Hugs/GHC system, see Sigbjorn>http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/hdirect [...] Sigbjorn> This document express