Re: [boost] asio projects (was: Boost and Google Summer of Code2007)

From: Alexander Nasonov (alnsn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-06 07:04:07

Ames Andreas wrote:
> > Do you have a estimate on a completity of this task?
> To be honest, I don't know;  such an estimation would need to be
> part of the project itself.  Nevertheless I would guess that it's
> feasible given that TAO has an explicit API to replace its own
> GIOP stack, see:
> www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/pluggable_protocols.pdf

Wow! I didn't know it has API. This simplifies student's time a lot and reduces "time to market".
Funny thing is that a student will face ACE vs Boost battle ;-)

> I don't know of a similar API in omniORB but at least it supports 
> a 'pluggable transport framework', i.e. you can 'easily' replace the
> transport layer beneath GIOP (usually IIOP).  How this extends to a
> GIOP replacement would need to be researched separately.  FWIW, the
> CORBA spec explicitly mentions that protocols other than GIOP should
> be possible (within the abstract CORBA architecture).
> Another interesting project goal would be to create an API that allows
> writing compliant objects and/or clients without IDL support.  CORBA has
> the Dynamic Invocation Interface (client side) and the Dynamic Skeleton
> API (server side).  Maybe a student would be interested in trying to
> create a good generic interface to show off the power of generic
> programming compared to those more traditional approaches.
> cheers,
> aa

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Alexander Nasonov