Dain Sundstrom wrote:
On Jun 24, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
Anders Hessellund Jensen wrote:
Sooner or later, we need to get rid of all our generated java
classes and start generating these classes from the IDL sources.
We therefore need to decide which IDL compiler to use for this.
We have had some bad experiences with JacORB
(http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YOKO-34), so this time i
suppose we stick to the SUN-provided idlj compiler.
Geronimo has a CORBA 3.0 spec project. I think it would be
reasonably easy to adapt these files to work with idlj. IMO, this
would be the best approach.
One issue with idlj is that it does not have support for the "local"
keyword. I guess we will have to live with this limitation, and
treat all interfaces as non-local.
What do you think?
Regards,
Anders
Can we not get JacORB to fix that bug?
BTW, should we release the maven plugin?
Can't we just write one
I like the spirit of that word "just". Nothing easier than writing an
IDL compiler... :-)
This is already tracked in YOKO-27. Should we start one in the svn
sandbox (i.e. outside trunk) and see how it goes? In particular, it
needs to attract a few developers, so please speak up if you're
interested in contributing.
or maybe IONA could donate one?
Their current position is they won't do that, see Adi's message on 31/5
in the "IDL to Java compiler" thread.
Alternatively, I think openorb has one, but IIRC it needs a lot of work.
Forget it - it has a hand written parser and so many bugs that it's
easier to write a new implementation from scratch.
Regards,
Lars
