From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-04-27T06:03:59+09:00
Subject: Re: CORBA on Ruby?

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:39:28AM +0900, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> So you mean a backend for the IDL compiler that spits out SWIG interface
> files instead of stub and skeleton source files? Not sure how much effort
> this would save, since you'd still need to code-up the C++ objects that wrap
> the CORBA calls, but maybe you'd see a payoff for larger libraries.

Most of the time, it's just a matter of determining how to convert the
types from Ruby to C++ to CORBA; the CORBA calls themselves look just
like regular C++ calls, and should wrap fairly easily.

The trick is in the callback objects; as far as I can tell, there's no
simple way to automate writing C++ classes to wrap Ruby callback
objects.

> Anyhoo... thanks for the information. If I learn anything worthwhile I'll
> let you know!

Much appreciated. :)

Paul