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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Different corba implementations
From:       David Faure <david.faure () insa-lyon ! fr>
Date:       1999-06-16 8:04:09
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On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 07:06:18PM -0500, Lotzi Boloni wrote:
> 
>   Question: how difficult would be is to keep the system ORB independent?
> The commercial ORBs like Visigenic and Orbix might be already in use on 
> certain systems, and they might be better under some conditions. (Both of
> them are considering Linux ports - it seems that Visigenic actually has
> a beta). 
> 
>   But maybe linking against these would totally break the GPL so the whole
> question is meaningless. 
> 
The question is meaningless, but not for this reason :

ORBs implementations are SOURCE incompatible.
The CORBA so-caled standard is only a _specification_ standard, not an
implementation one, so each ORB is free to implement things
as it wants.
This means you can't develop for all ORBs at the same time, you
have to choose one - but it can interoperate with the others since
the protocol (IIOP) is part of the specification.

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David FAURE
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