Smalltalk and CORBA

Marc Nijdam men at jaguar.fc.hp.com
Wed Dec 9 20:29:55 UTC 1998


Stephen Pope <stp at create.ucsb.edu> writes:

> I'm glad that there are several others interested in CORBA ORBs for
> Squeak. The basic prerequisites that are currently still open issues
> include:
>
> 	(1) Weak references and collections;
> 	(2) First-class exceptions (including unwinding); and
> 	(3) a ParserGenerator.
> 
> (1) has been recently added to Squeak by Andreas Raab. (Has anyone
> tested it heavily?)

Not heavily...

> There are several solutions to (2), including a (partial)
> VisualWorks-compatible version (by yours truly), a
> VisualSmalltalk-like version (by Tim Jones), and an ANSI Smalltalk
> version (from R A Harmon). None of these is complete, nor do they
> have the VM support for full block unwinding.

What are the plans for adding VM support for this. I'd volunteer but
given my lack of expertise in VM internals this is unlikely to be
successfull.

> (3) Is a bit complicated. The public domain TGen package is rather
> tightly bound to the VisualWorks Smalltalk compiler, which is
> diferent in many respects from Squeak's. I believe that getting a
> port of TGen is the next important step to getting a CORBA ORB
> ported.

Is someone already working on this? 

Marc





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