CORBA in D

[Geoffrey Biggs]

On 02/03/12 13:28, Sean Kelly wrote:
> 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.

Yes, there's the omniidl IDL compiler, to go from OMG IDL to C++ objects 
(or Python objects, if you're using omniORB-py). Unfortunately, the code 
it produces is enough to make you go blind, so it's not something I 
would want to write D bindings for manually.

Geoff