pluggable GIOP implementations; Was: Re: [omniORB] GIOP and LAPD?

[Stefan Seefeld]

Jonas Olofsson wrote:
> 
> I am going to develop a CORBA system between a ordinary PC, running NT
> and GSM rbs, an embedded system running a real-time OS called OSE-delta.
> The communication protocol between the two systems is called LAPD, and
> uses the serial port on the PC.
> 
> LAPD is a stream-based, connection-oriented reliable protocol. As I
> understand, I should be able to use GIOP, and write my own code to run
> GIOP over LAPD? Is this possible, and how do I do it? How do I do to use
> for example omniORB on the PC, and make that ORB to use GIOP
> instead of IIOP?

To be more general: does omniORB provide functionality to switch between
different GIOP implementations ?
I'm thinking of a way to use mmapped files (or shared memory) as a marshal
buffer for local client/servers. We are writing a windowing system ('Berlin')
and I expect most of the clients to live in the same machine the server runs on.
While I do my best to keep all sensible objects within the server, sometimes
they can't. However, a solution like XSHM as a X protocol extension, where for 
example XImages can be exchanged via SHM segments would be *very* useful. 
Is this being considered ?

Thanks,	Stefan

PS: Doug Schmidt discussed this so it seems that TAO either already supports
    it or at least will support it in the near future...

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

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