Re: ANNOUNCE: Free-NET

["Gerhard Häring" <gerhard.nospam@bigfoot.de>]

I do agree that wrapping C language libraries to scripting languages or
other HLL is a task that's far from pleaseant. But 

1) mqSeries doesn't seem to be free (not even free in the GNU sense, to
which I happen to not agree, but just the ��� sense of free). That's
euro :-)
2) I am in the process of interfacing a large C library to Ada, and
sometimes I wish there was a COM equivalent for Unix. Then this would be
a non-issue.
3) Even going the heavyweight way of using CORBA IDL seems to be easier
than writing a wrapper for each scripting langage. At least you only
have to write the wrapper once and it is guaranteed to work for each
language that has a CORBA mapping. Personally I do not believe in
automatic conversion � la SWIG, c2ada and the like.

I am just starting to fiddle with CORBA, though. But I rather like it.
Give me a CORBA implementation that connects code written in two
different languages in in-process, and we can even forget about .NET
altoghether. That would be the absolute killer, but I do not know if
this would even be possible.

Gerhard

aotto2@my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   the goal is the time you have to spend to write such an extension,
>   The CO-Process based implementation taks some days, the full
>   native implementation in TCL would take weeks or months.
>   ( just remember how difficult it is to write an DB wrapper for
>     a language )
> 
>   on of the main features is that you write the CO-Process one
>   time and can reuse it for every language again and this is an
>   big improvement.
> 
> mfg
> 
>   aotto :)
> 
> > This looks really dumb (or is it just me?) why can't you use the
> commands
> > with out giveing them to some server? is this a really dodgy multi
> threading
> > with out multi threadding?(sort of the art of fighting with out
> fighting? :)
> >
> > also what is this .net crud that is the "new" buzzword.. some one
> mentioned
> > it.. and I can't remember what he said :) some thing about a new
> message que
> > to replace interprocess communications or some thing? but it's for
> multi
> > computers or some thing?
> >
> >
> 
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