Satellite, CORBA, MICO, C++

Hello, Disclaimer: This e-mail partly describes vapourware! :-) First of all I have been making some patches to Satellite to make it work with version 0.5.x of ORBit and not with the CVS snapshot. The current patched version on my hard drive is mostly a proof-of-concept and leaks lots of memory, but if some people show interest I might take some time to clean it up and commit it to PHP. Note: It will require some patches applied to ORBit because of bugs in its DII (Dynamic Invocation Interface) implementation. Because of the sorry state of DII in ORBit, I have been looking at the possibility to connect another free ORB to PHP. At first I tried omniORB, but it messed around too hard with threads. Now I'm looking at MICO, and it has not let me down yet! My PHP extension using MICO is currently capable of getting random numbers from random.org, but not much more! :-) Both omniORB and MICO have C++ interface, so I thought it would be nice with some reusable glue code for extensions that use C++. I call it "Zpp" and it's currently some 1000 lines of code used by my MICO extension. The main purpose is to easily write PHP classes in C++. Would anyone else ever be interested in such a framework or should I just keep it as part of my MICO extension? What should I give priority to? Patch Satellite or work on a replacement extension using MICO? :-) 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