[omniORB] Ways of bridging OMNIorb with DCOM

[Alex Hornby]

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 10:19, Michael Mountrakis wrote:
> 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?
> 


Hi Michael,

Not sure if XPCOM is compatible with COM on MS systems... If it is then
http://xpcom2corba.sunsite.dk might be appropriate.

Looks like a good starting point anyway.

Cheers,
Alex.