Stephen,

You might want to contact Promia...I spoke with them a while back and they
were very interesting in porting their CORBA implementation to Squeak.  It
would probably cost a good bit (billing rates and all) and it wouldn't be
open source...but, even if spending the money wasn't an option for you, I
would still talk to them and express the interest in a Squeak
implementation.

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfabry at vub.ac.be [mailto:jfabry at vub.ac.be]On Behalf Of Johan Fabry
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 8:55 AM
> To: squeak
> Subject: Re: CORBA for Squeak
>
>
> "Stephen T. Pope" wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The squeak list server is still rejecting my posts. This is for you and
> > for the list; would you mind posting it while I try to get the
> list fixed?
> >
> > Thanks...
> >
> > stp
> >
> > Johan Fabry wrote:
> > > [ ... stuff deleted ...]
> > >
> > > However (there has to be a 'however' :-)) CORBA (in my opinion) is no
> > > fun. It is hard to learn (I teach some classes of our distributed
> > > systems course, including the CORBA classes, and it is a repeating
> > > pattern) and it is hard to use.
> >
> > For our group, the point is that we're building a large heterogenous
> > distributed system with several important services (real-time
> > many-channel surround sound processors) written in C++ but driven from
> > Smalltalk (not necessarily Squeak).
> >
> > We need a fully CORBA-compliant client. Debating whether CORBA is good
> > or bad is moot. It's there, and we're using the ACE/TAO infrastructure
> > for load-balancing and object migration in a very performance-critical,
> > high-bandwidth (hundreds of channels of sound), and
> > high-compute-requirement (on the order of 20-40 output channels)
> > real-time application. Unfortunately, the only real variable for us is
> > whether we can use Squeak at all (or whether I have to port all of Siren
> > to VisualWorksNC).
> >
> > --
> >
> > stp
> >   Stephen Travis Pope
> >   http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~stp
>
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