[omniORB] Ways of bridging OMNIorb with DCOM

[Bruce Fountain]

On Tuesday 10 September 2002 17:19, Michael Mountrakis wrote:
> 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.

One alternative to a dynamic CORBA/DCOM bridge is to write a
custom bridge specific to the interfaces involved. For instance,
your "bridge" could act as a server process on - on receipt of a
CORBA request to get the state of a DCOM object, it makes the
DCOM request then converts the result to CORBA and returns it
to the CORBA client. You "bridge" is really an agent into the
DCOM world, exposing DCOM objects and operations to CORBA
clients, but only for a specific DCOM interface.

Where you have a limited number of well-known interfaces in the
system this approach can be a lot simpler, plus saving you the
cost of a third-party bridge.

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Bruce Fountain (fountainb@switch.aust.com)
Senior Software Engineer
Union Switch and Signal Pty Ltd
Perth Western Australia
tel: +618 9256 0083