Re: [orbitcpp-list] General information

[Phil D. <ph...@us...>]

Paz Offer writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I have a very general questions regarding using ORBit - I would be very 
 > gratefull for any response.
 > 
 > My environment is a PDA class device operating Linux, on Arm based platform. 
 > (I estimate that my RAM and disc space would be around 16~32MB each)
 > 
 > I done a brief reading about the ORBit/CPP product. From what I read I think 
 > that this product can suit my needs.
 > 
 > My questions:
 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > 1.	What state is this product now - I understand it was not released yet.
 > 	Is it stable, is it expected to be released soon?

It is stable, orbitcpp-0.30 will be released soon (in fact, I'll
release it when ORBit-0.5.7 is released).

 > 2.	Using this product I understand that Client AND Server can be written in 
 > C++ (?)

Yes

 > 3.	Does the product suport also the activation of in-proc servants?
 > 	Does it actualy locate the DLL load it to memory and create the instance?
 > 	[I am new to the CORBA field, so excuse if I have a misunderstanding 
 > here..]

There is a secondary ORBit package called 'oaf' (object activation
framework) which does this. orbitcpp *should* work with this, but
AFAIK this is untested. 
I plan on working on this next (implementation repository based on oaf).

(In case you don't know, ORBit is a small fast C ORB, orbitcpp
provides c++ support for ORBit)


 > 4.	Is the product fully CORBA compliant?
 > 

It is fully compliant in that everything implemented is CORBA spec
compliant. There are some notable features in 2.3 not implemented in
orbitcpp - DynAny and value types are examples.
You also may have problems with anonymous sequence members (untested).


 > Thanks in advanced for any response!
 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > 

You're welcome,

Cheers,

Phil