On Thursday, January 14, 1999 4:26 PM, Marc Nijdam [SMTP:men at jaguar.fc.hp.com] wrote:
> "Hrefna Gu\pmundsd\sttir" <hrefnag at mmedia.is> writes:
> 
> > On Wednesday, January 13, 1999 4:36 PM, Marc Nijdam 
> > [SMTP:men at jaguar.fc.hp.com] wrote:
> > > Hrefna "Gu\pmundsd\sttir" <hrefnag at mmedia.is> writes:
> > >
> > > > I've been away for a while so I don't know if something has begun in
> > > > the area of making CORBA available to Squeak. I will spend some time
> > > > on this issue and it would be great if someone else would like to
> > > > lend a hand. I'm fairly new to Squeak and Smalltalk but I know a bit
> > > > about CORBA.  Any takers?
> > >
> > > Absolutely!! I'm hoping that the socket issues in Squeak will be
> > > resolved though so that reliable TCP becomes possible...
> > >
> > > Marc
> > >
> > 
> > Ah, you must be thinking about a pure Squeak implementation of the
> > orb, services, etc., right?  What I had in mind was to make a
> > Smalltalk (Squeak) binding for some external orb that is available
> > (i.e.. Mico) to get things going as soon as possible and that would
> > not, of course, depend on the TCP/IP stack in Squeak. An integrated
> > orb for Squeak would be great and I think that's the way to go in
> > the long run. But I need to get this going within the next few
> > months so I thought it would be a better way to use something that
> > was available (as Mico is). You have to make an IDL compiler for
> > Squeak anyway so maybe we could design it in a way that makes it
> > extensible or easily modifiable to support different orb's. In the
> > case of Mico there has to made some wrapper for it's library to make
> > it available to Squeak. Maybe an other possible way is to make an
> > abstract orb interface in Squeak that would use any orb that is
> > available, whether Mico, Squeak orb or something else?  In any case,
> > you have to make an IDL compiler.
> > 
> > The thing for me is that I haven't any experience in making
> > compilers so I would have to learn as I go. One other thing that I
> > don't know a thing about is how to access an external C++ library
> > from Squeak.
> 
> Don't know about linking C++ to squeak,  but it shouldn't be rocket
> science. Anyone on the list done this?
> 
> Also, ILU supports a multitude of languages, C++, Python, Guile (and I
> think C), has an idl compiler to generate stubs for those languages
> and is CORBA 2.0 compliant (with extensions). The python pieces would
> be a great starting point for a squeak implementation.
> 
> Marc
> 

Does ILU support SSL? That's the main reason I want to use Mico.

Jens