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Subject:    [jacorb-developer] Micro-HOWTO: JacORB and IBM Visual Age for Java
From:       Frank Bergmann <bergmann () gedas ! es>
Date:       1999-10-14 9:13:49
Message-ID: 38059ECD.78E5BD73 () gedas ! es
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Micro-HOWTO
JacORB and IBM Visual Age for Java

Goal of this Micro-HOWTO is to integrate JacORB into VAJ 
so that you can use the integrated development environment 
(IDE) to compile IDLs.

1. Get yourself a VAJ version: The "Professional Beta 2.0" 
and a "Professional Demo" have been around on several 
shareware CDs. There's also a (free?) Beta for Linux since 
a few weeks, but I didn't check it out yet.

2. Import the JacORB source into VAJ: The import is 
straight, except for changing the SWING locations to 
com.sun.java.swing.*.

3. Create your sample project, "JacORB Example" for 
instance.

4. Open the IDL view to your new project: Rightclick your 
"JacORB Example" and choose: "Open To"/IDL.

5. Rightclick into the IDLs subwindow, choose "Add IDL 
Group" and create for example the "userman" IDL group.

6. Rightclick the "userman" IDL group, choose: "Add IDL 
Object" and create for example "user_manager".

7. Insert some IDL code into the "IDL Source" subwindow, 
for example:

module user_manager {
  struct KeyValue {
	string	key;
	string	value;
  };
  typedef sequence <KeyValue> KVList;
  interface UserManager {
    void createUser(in string userName);
    void setUserVars(in string userName, in KVList args);
    KVList getUserVars(in string userName);
    StringList getUserList();
  };
};

Press "Ctrl-S" to save the code.

8. Set the IDL compiler parameter: Rightclick the 
"userman" IDL group and choose: "Change Compiler Options". 
Set "Other Compiler" to "c:\home\java\jacorb\bin\idl" for 
example and the "Compile Options" to "-p fraber.userman" 
to create code located in "fraber.userman.XXX" packages.

9. Compile the IDL by rightclicking the "userman" IDL 
groups and choosing "Generate Java"/"All Objects". VAJ 
starts the compiler and imports the generated files into 
the project.

10. My VAJ help system has some problems so that I didn't 
find the help for this feature. Please tell me, if you 
found a help page: mailto:fraber@cs.tu-berlin.de.

11. I encountered a problem with VAJ: After doing a 
version rollback on the "JacORB Examples" project, all my 
IDL code disappeared. It seems that the IDL code didnīt 
get saved together with the project. Workaround: Make sure 
you version your IDL code.

A sample ".dat" file with my "JacORB Example" project can 
be found at: 
http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~fraber/java/userman/

I hope that helps. I love working with VAJ, but make sure 
you've got >96M (I'm not exaggerating).


Best regards,
Frank


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Frank Bergmann
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