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

[Glenn A. Hochberg]

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FYI: Inprise VisiBroker also implements this technique (shared memory for in-host
object transport); of course, the source is not available...
    -Glenn

Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> 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...
>
> _______________________________________________________
>
> Stefan Seefeld
> Departement de Physique
> Universite de Montreal
> email: seefelds@magellan.umontreal.ca
>
> _______________________________________________________
>
>       ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...

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