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| 181.1 | IIOP-compliant ORB's wanted for experimentation | CPEEDY::COOK | Just say NO to that AccViO! - Java!!! | Mon Mar 17 1997 11:22 | 26 |
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I'm hoping to find the time just to play a little with Corba (using
Java).
The textbook I bought on the subject ("Client/Server Programming with
Java and Corba", authored by Orfali/Harkey, with the two green
martians on the cover) mentions 3 commercial products:
(1) JavaSoft's CORBA IIOP ORB (aka 'Joe')
(2) Iona's OrbixWeb
(3) Visigenic's "VisiBroker for Java" (aka 'Black Widow')
Does anyone here know the relative features/pricing of these
products and of any similar alternatives? (I'd like to find
the most inexpensive ORB [that supports IIOP] that would work
(on either OpenVMS or Windows-NT).)
Also, I'd heard that our Corba-implementation on OpenVMS is
being enhanced to support IIOP. Is there a usable 'beta' of
that which is reasonably stable?
Thanks for any/all guidance.
Dave
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| 181.2 | Result of some investigations | AZUR::DESOZA | Jean-Pierre, DTN 828-5559 | Tue Mar 18 1997 11:55 | 22 |
| Here are two products still immature but nevertheless interesting in
this domain.
JYLU - CORBA V2.0 orb.
I have not completed yet my initial investigation.
It's lacking many features such as IIOP support.
http://coho.stanford.edu/~hassan/Java/Jylu/index.html
HORB - non-CORBA orb.
That's an interesting product. It's really a pity it is not
CORBA compliant. The interesting point is that the "Hello World"
example requires maybe 5 lines of codes for each (client
or server) end. It involves a modified Java compiler. While you
compile the server code, interface code is automatically
generated and compiled.
I have ported it on a Macintosh which was not in the list of
supported platforms and had no particular problem with the
porting with a compiler based on JDK 1.0.2. (CodeWarrior 10)
The performance is truly terrible, too bad!
http://ring.etl.go.jp/openlab/horb/WELCOME.HTM
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| 181.3 | 30-day free trial for Visigenic | CPEEDY::COOK | Just say NO to that AccViO! - Java!!! | Fri Mar 21 1997 16:44 | 5 |
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To partially answer my own question in .1,
the 3rd product, Visigenic's "VisiBroker for Java" (aka 'Black
Widow'), have free kits (with 30-day expiring license keys) available
at their web-site.
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