[omniORB] Asynchronous calls

[Ben Keeping]

Gary Duzan wrote:

>... CORBA doesn't really specify
>whether oneway must be asynchronous or not, so some would argue >that it is
mostly useless for portable code to use it.  If you want to
>guarantee asynchronous invocation, you'll have to implement your >own
queueing/threading scheme.

The alternative of course is to use CORBA for the synchronous parts,
together with a portable message passing interface, i.e. MPI or PVM. Does
anyone have any experience with this sort of combination... I may need to
use it soon?

Ben Keeping
Imperial College
London