Re: Ada and C++ communications using CORBA

[Devon Prichard <d.s.prichard@larc.nasa.gov>]

jpwoodruff@my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> In article <39C6917A.DB2BBC9@acm.org>,
>   Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote:
> > Mike Silburn wrote:
> > > Has  anyone successfully integated Ada with C++ using CORBA?
> >
> > I recall a presentation on the National Ignition Facility (I think
> > that's it's name) that used C++ for GUIs and Ada for the real-time,
> > important stuff, communicating via CORBA.
> >
> 
> The National Ignition Facility is indeed our name: lasers.llnl.gov/
> lasers/nif.html.  We're a  $2Billion Department of Energy project for
> laser-driven fusion research.  Located at Livermore National Lab in
> California.  Described in the '98 SIGAda.
> 
> Our integrated control system is written in Ada and communicates via
> CORBA.  But our plan to use C++ for our GUI's has been replaced by Java.
> 
> We're getting excellent results using ORBexpress in Ada and Visibroker in
> Java.

Hi there, are you folks using Ada just for 
hardware control & real-time stuff, or are
you also using it for calculations & offline
data processing?



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