[omniORB] omniORB 3.0.x

[Daniel Popowich]

Jeff Schnitzer writes:
> I'm in the exact same situation; in fact, I subscribed to this list two
> days ago because I'm trying to figure out how to use RMI-IIOP to talk to
> a C++ server object.

Funny.  I joined the list a few weeks ago for the same reason.

> Unfortunately I need to be able to burst an array of structures across
> the wire on a single remote call, so I (apparently) need valuetypes.
> I'm bewildered that CORBA had no standard way to send structs until so
> recently; Microsoft has had structs in the DCOM IDL for years.

You *can* do this with CORBA (a sequence of structs) and always have
been able to, it's just that rmic maps java objects to valuetypes.

> I'm going to be taking a look at Orbacus (http://www.ooc.com/ob/) next;
> it claims to support valuetypes.  It's a commercial product but
> supposedly free for noncommercial use.  I believe there are other
> commercial ORBs which support valuetypes, but they get pretty expensive.

If you come up with something, please post it.

-d