Has anyone implemented CORBA?

Stephan B. Wessels stephan.wessels at sdrc.com
Thu Mar 9 13:56:13 UTC 2000


Because Squeak needs to interact and CORBA is a very good normalizer, in my
opinion.

For a specific example, we use CORBA heavily for middleware applications.  They
are all written using Java.  If Squeak had CORBA capability we could begin to
prototype and experiment quicker and possibly even deploy solutions in house and
for customers.  Without CORBA Squeak stays in a smaller circle.  It is valid to
ask if the larger circle is worth the effort or cost to implement CORBA in
Squeak.  But I thought one of the key advantages to the open soure solutions is
the high level of parallelism that is enabled in development.  If enough people
really need it, it gets done.

>From a personal level, CORBA is the easiest way to get Squeak into where we use
Java today.  And I do not believe that Java is where developers should work if
they have a choice.

  - Steve

"Andrew C. Greenberg" wrote:

> At 7:42 AM -0500 3/9/2000, Stephan B. Wessels wrote:
> > >
> >
> >If Squeak had CORBA support I would be using it right now for prototyping and
> >experimenting with projects in a much broader audience.
> >
> >I think it's necessary to get Squeak widely used in the corporate world.
>
> Why?  Even if that were so, why would that be an important goal?





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