[omniORB] omniORB, Objective-C binding, and interceptors?

[Sai-Lai Lo]

Justin,

omniORB does not have an Objective-C binding. To create an Objective-C
binding, one has to:

1. write an IDL compiler backend to emit the Objective-C mapping.
2. write a (hopefully small) adaptation layer to link the omniORB2 runtime,
   which is written in C++ to the Objective-C world.

Now I do not know enough of Objective-C to say whether it is possible to do
interlanguage calls between it and C++. Exceptional handling and threading
may cause problems. It may be necessary to fall back on-to using C call
conventions to interface the two.

Perhaps the experience of the AdaBroker team (http://adabroker.eu.org/) may
be relevent. They have done an Ada ORB using omniORB2's runtime. Fabien
Azavant azavant@email.enst.fr may be able to help.

Interceptors will come, after POA (ETA Oct).

Sai-Lai

>>>>> Justin Morgan writes:

> Hi,
> <<I'm new to this list, so please forgive me if this question has been  
> answered before (I didn't see anything about this in the FAQ)>>

> Does omniORB support Objective-C bindings[1]?  If not, how hard would it be  
> to add Objective-C support to omniORB?

> Also, we also rely on Interceptors for some of our systems' functionality.   
> Is there an ETA for when interceptors will be available in omniORB?

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