Re: org. omg. CORBA implementation

[Bryce McKinlay]

Jeff Bailey wrote:

> The tentative plan at this point is to use Orbit, since that's the Official GNU
> ORB(tm).  
My gut feeling is that using a non-Java ORB wouldn't be the best 
technology decision for classpath. It doesn't make much sense to add 
Java bindings to a non-Java ORB when there are so many ORBs written 
natively for Java, and writing/testing/debugging JNI bindings may not be 
all that much easier than writing a Java ORB from scratch. On technology 
grounds, OpenORB[1] or JacORB[2] would seem to be better choices. 
Licensing is the real issue, but we shouldn't write off the possibilty 
of using these until the parties in question have been contacted.

I suspect that just having the org.omg interfaces, and not a full ORB 
implementation, will be sufficient for many/most users. Questions 
regarding the licensing of these classes have prevented/delayed this 
from happening in the past.

Bryce

[1] http://openorb.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.jacorb.org/