[omniORB] SUN RPC

[Bill Janssen]

Excerpts from ext.omniorb: 17-Mar-99 Re: [omniORB] SUN RPC "Gary D.
Duzan"@gte.com (483)

> Other ORBs may do CORBA over RPC (I think ILU may)
> but it isn't standard or common.

Yes, ILU supports CORBA over IIOP, HTTP, HTTP-NG, and Sun RPC.  It also
allows existing Sun RPC services to be expressed as CORBA API's, so that
you can use CORBA-style objects and methods to manipulate them.  Or, Sun
RPC services can be written with CORBA-style tools.  We've done both
here.  See the etc/portmapper directory in
ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/2.0a14/ilu-2.0alpha14.tar.gz for an
example of a portmapper client library done with this technique.

As Gary points out, though, Sun RPC support or portmapper usage is
entirely optional.  It can be configured out of or into ILU, depending
on your needs.

Bill