[omniORB] omniORB and gtk

Stefan Seefeld seefelds@MAGELLAN.UMontreal.CA
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 16:02:11 +0000


Matt Goodall wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to use omniORB with the GTK+ toolkit on Linux? If
> possible I would like to make my GUI windows CORBA objects so that they
> can be controlled by another program.
> 
> Other CORBA implementations seem to do this by making the X event loop
> wake up when CORBA events occur. I think they do it by adding input
> hooks. I've searched for similar stuff in omniORB but with no luck.

No problem. omniORB is fully multithreaded, you can still use your
X event loop as it is and process CORBA requests from different threads.

> Oh yeah, the reasons for wanting to use omniORB, if possible, are speed
> (run-time and compilation) and the C++ bindings. Mico will do all this
> already but the compilation takes forever; ORBit is a C-only
> implementation; any others?

What about TAO ?

Regards,	Stefan
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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
email: seefelds@magellan.umontreal.ca

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