Re: CORBA support now in CVS

Hello David, On 05-Sep-00 03:49:54, 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. You mean you are just adding IIOP client support to PHP right? >> 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. Oh, sorry, I was confusing your extension with PHPOrbit: http://freshmeat.net/projects/php-orbit/ >Satellite is a not much more than a wrapper of DII (Dynamic Invocation >Interface) calls. Mind me for asking as I am not a CORBA expert, but if you are just doing Dynamic Invocation, why are IDL files needed? >> 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... I see. I know that's not what you mean, but PHP can now act as a TCP/Unix domain socket server with the newly built-in added sockets extension. If you feel inspired and it makes sense for you, maybe you can use the sockets extension to make PHP act as a CORBA objects service provider. Regards, Manuel Lemos Web Programming Components using PHP Classes. Look at: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/?user=mlemos@acm.org -- E-mail: mlemos@acm.org URL: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ PGP key: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ManuelLemos.pgp --