[omniORB] Ways of bridging OMNIorb with DCOM

[Michael Mountrakis]

Dear All

The problem is as simple as that:
I am against a possible project that deals with distributed applications
over a large LAN. The applications are written in Basic and Visual C++ and
the operating system most of the hosts are running is MS Windows 2000. My
task is to write a remote management application to control those
applications. In order to do so, one "possible" solution I don't want to
select is DCOM (obviously you understand why...). The other one is OMNIorb,
but I have to find out a reliable way to bridge DCOM with CORBA. In other
words to translate my CORBA requests in DCOM and vice versa.


I know that IONA's orbix is provided with COMET, a tool to support
CORBA/DCOM interoperability. Does this thing work also for OMNIorb ?
Do you have to suggest any other alternative third party software for this
job?
Is there a way for me to code in CORBA transparently calls to DCOM objects,
without a middleware?
Finally, does it worth the CORBA solution under this situation, or I'd
rather go the DCOM way?

Michael Mountrakis MSc, MSc
Senior Software Engineer
m.mountrakis@neurosoft.gr
Neurosoft S.A.
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Athens, Greece
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