[omniORB] ORB feature questions

[Duncan Grisby]

On Thursday 11 October, Himanshu wrote:

> 1. At present there in no support for PI and Valuetype features. What's
> the timeframe for availaibility of these features?

There is no definite time frame at the moment. They certainly won't be
supported in omniORB 4.0.

> 2. How do I intergrate with 3rd party OTS if it's based on PI?

omniORB 4.0 has non-portable interceptors which would probably be
sufficient. The PI interfaces could be implemented on top of omniORB
4's interceptors.

> 3. Also we need Codec for portable marshalling and demarshalling. I feel
> that it won't be difficult to implement.

Again, I believe you could do that using omniORB 4 proprietary
features.

> 4. Do you support Python language mapping?

Yes. In fact omniORBpy is by far the most complete implementation of
the Python mapping.

> 5. Does omni IDL compiler support generation of tie classes?

Yes.

> 6. IIOP1.1 support

omniORB 4 will support IIOP 1.1 and 1.2.

Have a look at the omniORB 4 pre-release snapshots and see if it's
suitable for your purposes.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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