Re: CORBA support now in CVS

Quoting Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org>: > Hello David, > > On 02-Sep-00 04:48:59, you wrote: > > >> BTW, does your extension allow one to develop CORBA service provider > >> objects? If not, will it allow some time later? > > >You can only do client things with the extension, and I currently have > no > >plans for other features. > > That's a shame because my only interest in using CORBA is to separate > PHP > business objects from the Web pages scripts to make it more flexible to > distribute the objects and eventually use them in other contexts than > Web > interfaces. That's a good reason of course, but this is not the purpose of Satellite. > If I got it right, you based your PHP CORBA extension in a Perl module > for the same purpose, and that Perl module has support for POA. This is incorrect, you are thinking of another PHP CORBA extension. The source code för Satellite is 100% written my be. Satellite is a not much more than a wrapper of DII (Dynamic Invocation Interface) calls. > Would it take you much to add support to let PHP objects be CORBA > service > providers? Unfortunately, yes. It would be making a server of a client... Regards, -\- David Eriksson -/- "An expert in a particular computer language is really an expert in the work-arounds necessary to use this language to perform useful work." - Richard B. Johnson