AW: [PHP-DEV] CORBA

hi cimarron! do you plan to implement iiop on your own without using any external library? Another project i found interesting while browsing corba resources is http://corbaweb.lifl.fr/CorbaScript/ i am very interested in the design concepts for that project and would to stay in contact with you regarding this. regards stefan Die Werber Kommunikation & Marketing GmbH Neue Medien reuter@diewerber.de Brückenstr.5 Tel: 02171-7260- 0 51379 Leverkusen Fax: 02171-7260-15 The best way to accelerate a win95 system is at 9.81 m/s^2 > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Cimarron Taylor [SMTP:cimarron@taylors.org] > Gesendet am: Freitag, 30. Juli 1999 19:23 > An: zeev@zend.com > Cc: Reuter, Stefan; 'php-dev@lists.php.net' > Betreff: Re: [PHP-DEV] 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