Tip for MacOS X developers: An AdORB based IDL-Browser

[Schmidt Thomas]

Hi!

Hoping this mailing list also allows giving some unrequested tips:

For MacOS X developers there exists a CORBA/IIOP implementation for
the Objective C language called "AdORB" <http://adorb.sourceforge.net/

. The installer comes with a small but powerful so called

"IDLBrowser".
1. It maintains an IDL repository, which could be enhanced by your
own IDL-files. This repository is only used for browsing reasons and
to enable the 3. feature below. It doesn't seem to serve as an
interface repository like MICOs ird(8).
2. The Browser also lets you browse any CORBA NameService.
3. But its most powerful feature does allow you to send any request
to any CORBA object accessible via IOR or CORBA URL (from text file
or browsed values). So you may ask a factory for new object instances
and then in turn may perform any operations on this objects.

As long as I could try I didn't detect any interoperability problems
between MICO and AdORB.


Thomas

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