From kde-devel  Mon Jun 07 19:24:42 1999
From: David Faure <david.faure () insa-lyon ! fr>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 19:24:42 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: CORBA server and client for wordnet
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This is a nice idea.

wordnet is really great - BTW can you ship it with kwordnet or does
wordnet's licensing model forbids that ?

The CORBA architecture seems a good idea.
Though if you want kwordnet_corba_server to be KDE-indepedent
you'll have to use only raw Corba stuff (not kom, kparts nor kpartsui).
Will work but requires more CORBA knowledge.

For the configure script, take a look at kdevelop (for instance :) ).
IIRC it can generate an autoconf-and-MICO-enabled hierarchy to put your files
in. 

About kded using remote services : yes but you'll need to register
the service manually I think - kded parses local files only.
(A local .desktop can't launch a remote app ;) - what you
want is to use knaming - problem is to first get kded's IOR.
Might require some tricks.)

On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 08:57:17PM +0200, Daniel Naber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just hacked together some stuff for a CORBA client and server for
> wordnet. Wordnet is an "online lexical reference system". Just think
> of it as some kind of dictionary with less explanations but more
> information like word familiarity, synonyms etc.
> 
> Now I´d like to know (from our CORBA experts) if this concept is a
> good idea or if I´m on the wrong track (the arrows just mean "uses"):
> 
> Wordnet C API
> ^
> |
> |
> kwordnet_corba_server   <-- any (non-KDE) CORBA app
> ^
> |
> |
> kwordnet
> ^
> |
> |
> any KDE app
> 
> What I´ve written (well, started with) are corba_kwordnet_server and
> kwordnet. corba_kwordnet_server should be accessible by any CORBA
> app, not only by KDE apps. kwordnet is a GUI app that lets the user
> query for words. It should be available as a standalone app and it
> should be accessible by other KDE apps. Now I wonder if it makes
> sense to implement kwordnet as a "Part", like KImage and the other
> KOffice parts? I guess nobody really wants to embed a wordnet
> frontend (at least not the way you embed an image).
> 
> Is it already possible with kded to use CORBA services on remote
> machines? (BTW, I´m currently not using kded at all, but the ´get id
> from file´ hack as shown in the mico documentation).
> 
> I´d like to hear your comments. Just in case you think this app is
> boring and nobody needs it: You´re wrong :-) It might actually become
> quite cool, because
> a) CORBA really makes sense here (no big dictionary on your local
> machine)
> b) maybe the same concept can be used for a CORBA based spellchecker?
> 
> If you´d like to help, the most important thing I need (and I can´t
> do that) is a working ./configure.
> 
> If you´re curious and don´t mind code that´s a total mess, you
> can download it at
> http://mini.gt.owl.de/~dnaber/kwordnet/kwordnet-0.1.tar.gz (360 kb,
> but it´s actually only few lines of code. glibc2.0 binaries are
> included). Requirements: KDE 1.1, Qt 1.4x, mico 2.2.6 (2.2.3 might
> work), wordnet (http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/w3wn.html), note:
> wordnet is about 13 MB to download.
> 
> TIA
>  Daniel
> 
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