[omniORB] Support for Delphi ?

[novitk]

Not exactly an answer to your question, but we use Delphi 5 with a 
small COM in-place (DLL, written in VC++) automation objects quite 
effectively. This COM layer provides nice isolation from transport 
mechanics so we can easily migrate between ORBs(we switched between
Orbix, Visi and Omni), easier API, accessibility from different
environments in Win32 (VB, Excel, ASP etc.), transparent local 
caching and recovery management. Even if we had direct Omni support
in Delphi we would still opt for that root.

Fidel Lagos wrote:
> 
>  I want to build a Corba application wirh delphi, is possible to use OmniOrb
> instead of visibroker ? (anybody make this before?)
> 
>   to clarify our situation, let me explain you the situation with more
> detail:
> 
>   we have a large C/S system developed with Delphi 4 (around 150 EXEs). Now,
> we are migrating it to a CBD system with a Web GUI and CORBA as the
> communication paltform. Because of we are using Delphi, so far, we MUST use
> Visibroker DLLs to call the ORB. Now, what we want is that the CORBA client
> and server objects written in Delphi can interact each other without the
> Visibroker ORB (using your OmniORB)
> 
> we think that with a wrapping DElphi DLL of the C++ DLL of OmniOrb we can
> comunicate
> our objects to OmniORB. Do you plan to include this pascal language to your
> support in any time?.
> Maybe, just provide the wrapper DLL ?.
> 
>   there is a big community of Delphi users that they are starting to write
> Enterprise-scale software. And now this movement is bigger because of
> Inprise's Kylix project (Delphi in Linux!!!), so we can write multiplatform
> applications from our existing Win32 projects.
> 
>  have you considered this situation?.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Fidel Lagos