[omniORB] Orbs for Java

Peter Ledbrook p.ledbrook@psenterprise.com
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 10:40:34 +0000


I'm not sure whether Sun will be supporting their ORB particularly well now that they have RMI over IIOP (which has an IDL compiler that compiles my IDL files - amazing!). Perhaps the two will be supported
together, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Peter

Renny Koshy wrote:

> I just downloaded 1.2 also, but it seems that there's not idltojava in it.  Instead I had to download the early access version.  However, if you look @ the url, it looks like the idltojava is coming from the
> Enterprise Edition of the JDK (which is still in ea).
>
> I've been using it for ~ two days now with good results.. haven't done too much in terms of complex ops though.
>
> -Renny
>
> Dietmar May wrote:
>
> > > JDK 1.2 would seem to me the standard way to go.  Of course, you
> > > probably need to use JDK 1.1 for applet development, but this doesn't
> > > stop you using 1.2 for server-side stuff.
> >
> > Does JDK 1.2 FINALLY have a non-EA (early access) IDL to Java translator? It wasn't in the JDK (1.2.0) that I downloaded. It almost seemed that Sun had dropped ongoing improvements to their CORBA support ??
> >
> > Dietmar