[omniORB] Fwd: How to make an application which is both an omniorb client and TAO server

[Duncan Grisby]

On Thursday 1 July, renny.koshy at rubixinfotech.com wrote:

> Having given my advice against TAO as a pure "ORB"...  It does have the 
> nice little concept of Reactors... which allows people to tie in other IO 
> handles into the ORB's "select" loop....
> 
> Would that be too much work to add reactors into omniORB in some 
> standardized fashion?  i.e. a class "omniReactor"

As I understand it, TAO's reactor model is there to enable
applications to hook into the select loop when the system is being
used single threaded. omniORB always uses threads, so I'm not sure
what the advantage of the application being able to share omniORB's
select would be.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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