[omniORB] Newbie questions: Solaris/gcc, event service, library names

[Bruce Fountain]

Hi guys,

I am evaluating omni as a replacement for our current CORBA
implementation. I think I have ticks in pretty much all of
my boxes, but I have a couple of outstanding questions:

* I don't see Solaris2.7/gcc on the list of supported platforms.
  Is this doable?

* Event service. Omni doesn't come with one apparently. What
  do people mostly do for events? Should I use the contributed
  omniEvents service (it is not clear how stable or well tested
  this is). Does omniEvents support multiple channels, ala
  ORBacus?

  Maybe I can use omniNotify, making use of the CosEvent
  compatibility? The webpage says this is still in beta, but a
  release was due in January.

* Is there some reason why the version numbers of the libraries
  are mangled into the filenames? eg omniORB303_rtd.dll. Not that
  it is a big deal, but it makes for a configuration issue when
  upgrading to a new version. Unix makefiles are okay, but NT
  project files... Can I just rename the libraries and DLLs?

Anyway, I want to thank everyone involved for making this code
publicly available. I find it to be remarkably "productised"
for an OpenSource effort.

Bruce Fountain
Mi Consulting Group (Australia) Pty Ltd
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E-mail: bruce.fountain@mi-services.com 


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