[Overflow] Re: DL and PL integration

[jarl v. k. <ja...@ca...>]

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Hi All,

| 2. Write the CORBA interface and supporting code so that the stream class
| can communicate with the BL.

This will change the old plan of linking the PL and BL to one binairy. There's no
real prob as long as we setup a good authentication meganism between the 2 layers.

>
> The basic idea is that the BL
> implements an interface through which the PL can return errors and
> values. The PL implements a callback interface for whenever it returns an
> error, so that the BL can either stop or continue a run when an error
> occurs.

Sound logical.. and I cant thing of any to complain about, so you got my vote :)

>
> b. Have an id number assigned to each submitted process that would be
> given to a generic BlReporter (or we could have a general BL interface
> that gave specific BlReporters based on id numbers). In this case the PL
> and BL would have to track these id numbers.

This we already have, the Universal Resource Id (URI), look @ the DL-BL idl.

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> 2. How can the stream class return the stop or continue messages back to
> the node? I'm not sure how we can achieve this kind of callback with the
> stream setup, but this is probably just me missing something.

I dont quite see what you're pointing at, can you explain a bit more?

Tnnx 4 the Bl2Pl IDL Brad..  I'll think about it, you'll hear my comments on it soon.

bye,
jarl