Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com>]

Alexander Kopilovitch wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that I saw something somehow similar to that - OODBMS in Ada95,
> which was based on storage pools - in public domain, in 1995 or 1996 or 1997.
> I remember that I downloaded that thing, it seemed interesting and I read and
> even printed it. Now I tried to find it again, but so far failed - both on my
> disks and in the Net (unfortunately I remember neither the author's name nor
> exact title). There is still a chance that I'll find it in my archives on CDs.

The names have sort of changed, but not the reality.  There are several 
companies that provide object-oriented databases.  But the names to look 
for are CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture and ORB (Object 
Request Broker).  If you create a CORBA object usually in IDL, then any 
ORB can be used to share access to that object.  Of course what you 
really want to do is to have an object database that you can link to 
through the ORB, and an Ada binding to CORBA to translate your IDL 
objects into Ada code.  (Even better would be a tool that abstracted 
objects from your Ada code and created IDL descriptions of them.)

I used to follow the CORBA work pretty closely, then I got involved 
heavily in projects that used Oracle and staying current in both Oracle 
and the CORBA world was too much.  (Along, of course, with Ada, and the 
computer hardware, and a couple of OSes, and...)

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                                             Robert I. Eachus

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