[omniORB] omniORBpy : Messaging / DII Support

[Bahns, Chris]

I need to be able to execute multiple concurrent requests and then get the
responses together after the requests are sent (just a standard deferred
synchronous thing). I don't want to create multiple threads just for this
(very simple system initialization stuff).

The two ways I know of to do this are:
1. DII (create_request etc.)
2. Messaging ("sendc_" mechanism)

I understand that DII is available in omniORBpy 2.0 (not earlier). I was
able to build omniORB 4.0 with MSVC++ on Win2k, but did not see a
straightforward way to build omniORBpy 2.0 in this environment (instructions
seemed to be for UNIX). So, I'm still using 1.5 with no DII.

I don't mind waiting for the official release of omniORBpy 2.0 for the DII,
but what about the "sendc_" syntax and Messaging in general (policy
overrides, oneway semantics, etc.)? Is this already available or will it be
sometime soon?

Thanks for the help!
Christopher Bahns
Senior Software Engineer
GSI Lumonics, Inc.
(978) 661-4683