CORBA in D

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Thu Mar 1 20:28:42 PST 2012


On Mar 1, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Geoffrey Biggs <geoffrey.biggs at aist.go.jp> wrote:

> On 02/03/12 10:54, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/1/2012 4:43 PM, Geoffrey Biggs wrote:
>>> Morning all,
>>> 
>>> In a project just starting, we want to use D (for its safety, amongst
>>> other
>>> things). However, we also need to connect to distributed objects that
>>> have CORBA
>>> interfaces. I did a search, and the most recent mention of CORBA and D
>>> that I
>>> could find is a post to this list nearly 5 years ago:
>>> 
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Using_CORBA_with_D_55285.html
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The linked project is still just as empty now as it was then.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know of any existing approaches to using CORBA from D that
>>> have
>>> perhaps appeared since then? If there isn't a direct implementation,
>>> what are
>>> the chances of using a C++ library such as omniORB from D?
>> 
>> Isn't CORBA based on COM? D supports COM interfaces.
> 
> Are you referring to Microsoft's COM? If so, then I don't *think* there's any connection. CORBA and Microsoft's COM/DCOM are not compatible. CORBA uses a different (standardised, for what that's worth) distribution protocol to DCOM.

I haven't heard of one. Does omniORB use a pre-compiler?  This would be a great use of CTFE in a native D implementation. 


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