[omniORB] Compression for OmniORB

[Alexandre Denis]

Malge Nishant wrote:
> 
> hi,
>         I am in a process of adding compression support for omniORB. I
> intend to do this as below..
>         1. Add two more Message Types to GIOP - RequestCompressed &
> ReplyCompressed
>         2. Compress the marshaled data and send it across.
>         3. Other party will uncompress->unmarshal
> 
> I intend to use bzip library for the compression.

Instead of bzip, you may consider the use of the AdOC library (Adaptive
Online Compression) which is designed for on-the-fly compression of a
network stream. You can download it here:
http://www.loria.fr/~ejeannot/adoc/

-a.