Re: IIOP tools

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 16:12 +0200, Sven de Marothy wrote:
> Hi Archit,
> 
> >GNU Classpath currently has almost no support for IIOP. I'm wondering 
> >what the interest level is in expanding GNU classpath support for
> IIOP. 
> >I'm not sure what runtime classes are needed for IIOP, but I think 
> >JacORB [1] provides most of what is needed.
> 
> Right, but not the interfaces and the like. Unfortunately we can't use
> the OMG code, due to licensing reasons.
> 

Yes, I've been wondering about this.  Audrius, are you working on
re-implementing these non-free interfaces?  That would probably be the
best place to start on Classpath's implementation.  Then maybe we can
get JacORB dual-licensed LGPL/GPL+exception and import it into Classpath
directly.

Since JacORB is already very mature and widely-used it would be a shame
to duplicate all that effort in Classpath, just for licensing reasons.

Tom