Re: CORBA support now in CVS

Quoting Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org>: > >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? ORBit handles IIOP for me. Look here to see what Satellite can do: http://snaps.php.net/manual/en/html/ref.satellite.html > >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? (Btw: I'm not a CORBA expert either :-) I use the IDL files to know what data types the server expects, how many parameters a function can take, what members exist in interfaces and structs, etc. > >> 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. It's no use to work at socket level when the ORB provides higher level functionality. 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