Morning all,

In a project just starting, we want to use D (for its safety, amongst other things). However, we also need to connect to distributed objects that have CORBA interfaces. I did a search, and the most recent mention of CORBA and D that I could find is a post to this list nearly 5 years ago:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Using_CORBA_with_D_55285.html

The linked project is still just as empty now as it was then.

Does anyone know of any existing approaches to using CORBA from D that have perhaps appeared since then? If there isn't a direct implementation, what are the chances of using a C++ library such as omniORB from D?


Thanks,
Geoff

On 3/1/2012 4:43 PM, Geoffrey Biggs wrote:
> Morning all,
>
> In a project just starting, we want to use D (for its safety, amongst other
> things). However, we also need to connect to distributed objects that have CORBA
> interfaces. I did a search, and the most recent mention of CORBA and D that I
> could find is a post to this list nearly 5 years ago:
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Using_CORBA_with_D_55285.html
>
> The linked project is still just as empty now as it was then.
>
> Does anyone know of any existing approaches to using CORBA from D that have
> perhaps appeared since then? If there isn't a direct implementation, what are
> the chances of using a C++ library such as omniORB from D?

Isn't CORBA based on COM? D supports COM interfaces.

On 02/03/12 10:54, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/1/2012 4:43 PM, Geoffrey Biggs wrote:
>> Morning all,
>>
>> In a project just starting, we want to use D (for its safety, amongst
>> other
>> things). However, we also need to connect to distributed objects that
>> have CORBA
>> interfaces. I did a search, and the most recent mention of CORBA and D
>> that I
>> could find is a post to this list nearly 5 years ago:
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Using_CORBA_with_D_55285.html
>>
>>
>> The linked project is still just as empty now as it was then.
>>
>> Does anyone know of any existing approaches to using CORBA from D that
>> have
>> perhaps appeared since then? If there isn't a direct implementation,
>> what are
>> the chances of using a C++ library such as omniORB from D?
>
> Isn't CORBA based on COM? D supports COM interfaces.

Are you referring to Microsoft's COM? If so, then I don't *think* there's any connection. CORBA and Microsoft's COM/DCOM are not compatible. CORBA uses a different (standardised, for what that's worth) distribution protocol to DCOM.

Geoff

On Mar 1, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Geoffrey Biggs <geoffrey.biggs@aist.go.jp> wrote:

> On 02/03/12 10:54, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/1/2012 4:43 PM, Geoffrey Biggs wrote:
>>> Morning all,
>>> 
>>> In a project just starting, we want to use D (for its safety, amongst
>>> other
>>> things). However, we also need to connect to distributed objects that
>>> have CORBA
>>> interfaces. I did a search, and the most recent mention of CORBA and D
>>> that I
>>> could find is a post to this list nearly 5 years ago:
>>> 
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Using_CORBA_with_D_55285.html
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The linked project is still just as empty now as it was then.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know of any existing approaches to using CORBA from D that
>>> have
>>> perhaps appeared since then? If there isn't a direct implementation,
>>> what are
>>> the chances of using a C++ library such as omniORB from D?
>> 
>> Isn't CORBA based on COM? D supports COM interfaces.
> 
> Are you referring to Microsoft's COM? If so, then I don't *think* there's any connection. CORBA and Microsoft's COM/DCOM are not compatible. CORBA uses a different (standardised, for what that's worth) distribution protocol to DCOM.

I haven't heard of one. Does omniORB use a pre-compiler?  This would be a great use of CTFE in a native D implementation.

On 02/03/12 13:28, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Geoffrey Biggs<geoffrey.biggs@aist.go.jp>  wrote:
>
>> On 02/03/12 10:54, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 3/1/2012 4:43 PM, Geoffrey Biggs wrote:
>>>> Morning all,
>>>>
>>>> In a project just starting, we want to use D (for its safety, amongst
>>>> other
>>>> things). However, we also need to connect to distributed objects that
>>>> have CORBA
>>>> interfaces. I did a search, and the most recent mention of CORBA and D
>>>> that I
>>>> could find is a post to this list nearly 5 years ago:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Using_CORBA_with_D_55285.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The linked project is still just as empty now as it was then.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of any existing approaches to using CORBA from D that
>>>> have
>>>> perhaps appeared since then? If there isn't a direct implementation,
>>>> what are
>>>> the chances of using a C++ library such as omniORB from D?
>>>
>>> Isn't CORBA based on COM? D supports COM interfaces.
>>
>> Are you referring to Microsoft's COM? If so, then I don't *think* there's any connection. CORBA and Microsoft's COM/DCOM are not compatible. CORBA uses a different (standardised, for what that's worth) distribution protocol to DCOM.
>
> I haven't heard of one. Does omniORB use a pre-compiler?  This would be a great use of CTFE in a native D implementation.

Yes, there's the omniidl IDL compiler, to go from OMG IDL to C++ objects (or Python objects, if you're using omniORB-py). Unfortunately, the code it produces is enough to make you go blind, so it's not something I would want to write D bindings for manually.

Geoff

On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:43:17 +0100, Geoffrey Biggs <geoffrey.biggs@aist.go.jp> wrote:

> Morning all,
>
> In a project just starting, we want to use D (for its safety, amongst other things). However, we also need to connect to distributed objects that have CORBA interfaces. I did a search, and the most recent mention of CORBA and D that I could find is a post to this list nearly 5 years ago:
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Using_CORBA_with_D_55285.html
>
> The linked project is still just as empty now as it was then.
>
> Does anyone know of any existing approaches to using CORBA from D that have perhaps appeared since then? If there isn't a direct implementation, what are the chances of using a C++ library such as omniORB from D?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff

There was some Thrift support in the workings if that might help you.

On 02/03/12 21:43, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:43:17 +0100, Geoffrey Biggs
> <geoffrey.biggs@aist.go.jp> wrote:
>
>> Morning all,
>>
>> In a project just starting, we want to use D (for its safety, amongst
>> other things). However, we also need to connect to distributed objects
>> that have CORBA interfaces. I did a search, and the most recent
>> mention of CORBA and D that I could find is a post to this list nearly
>> 5 years ago:
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Using_CORBA_with_D_55285.html
>>
>>
>> The linked project is still just as empty now as it was then.
>>
>> Does anyone know of any existing approaches to using CORBA from D that
>> have perhaps appeared since then? If there isn't a direct
>> implementation, what are the chances of using a C++ library such as
>> omniORB from D?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Geoff
>
> There was some Thrift support in the workings if that might help you.

Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately, CORBA and Thrift are not compatible.

Geoff