Re: CORBA

| > Hi! are there any plans to integrate CORBA support into PHP? | Nothing concrete. Noone has volunteered to do that yet. Not so. I've been studying part-time IIOP for about 2 weeks now with the intent of creating a php module which would allow php to connect to an IIOP server, issue IIOP requests and handle IIOP results. I've been hampered somewhat by lack of concise documentation on IIOP -- most of the stuff I've seen is simply too verbose and/or too high level to be useful to me. The best documentation I've found so far are two papers at http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/corba-research-performance.html which go into the details of what the ACE project did to make TAO faster than the Sun IIOP. I've also been studying the internals of TAO, MICO, omniORB, ORBit, ORBacus, and Fnorb to get some ideas. My current plan is to: 1) update the compiler/os on my FreeBSD machine so that I can use one or more of the aforementioned orbs for testing. 2) design/implement a primitive DII interface which would expose the IIOP details to the php developer. This is first because it is easiest. 3) design/implement an interface to parse IDL and/or communicate with an interface repository so that IIOP objects appear as native PHP objects. This is more complicated and would involve working out a mapping from IIOP types to PHP types. I'm hoping to begin actual coding soon. I'd appreciate ideas or suggestions from anyone interested in this. Cim