Re: PolyORB 1.1r

[Laurent Pautet <pautet@dorine.enst.fr>]

Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
>
> I take this an an indication that Glade is indeed dead.

Let's summarize the story.

1995
   GLADE first and unique ORB for DSA (Distributed Systems Annex) done
   by a research team (mostly L. Pautet and S. Tardieu) at T�l�com
   Paris with the help of CSC and then supported by ACT (at this time).

1999
   AdaBroker a free ORB for CORBA done by the same research team at
   T�l�com Paris (basically GLADE team, T. Quinot and other
   contributors).

2002
   PolyORB a generic ORB (which provides DSA, CORBA, MOM, ...) has
   been designed by a research team from T�l�com Paris, LIP6 and ACTE
   (mostly L. Pautet, T. Quinot, J. Hugues and F. Kordon). This
   middleware is based on GLADE and AdaBroker know-how. PolyORB is
   supported by AdaCore. It is also the result of the current research
   work on middleware architecture carried out by T�l�com Paris/LIP6.
   Many papers in non-Ada conferences.

GLADE is definitively alive. There are customer releases for 3.16 and
5.02. Unfortunately, there is no public release from a long time. The
GLADE CVS tree may soon become available. Note that when GLADE is
integrated in PolyORB, GLADE will not be dead. It will be part of a
larger middleware. GNAT will probably still be the only Ada
environment providing Annex E.

PolyORB is definitively alive. It is a successful professional ORB and
more important it is a successful Ada research project in the free
software area and in the middleware community (many papers in non-Ada
conferences).

I can tell you it is a hard job to be part of the middleware community
when you are using Ada, when you have to deal with C++ ORBs (even in
the RT community) like TAO (intensively supported through DARPA
projects) and when you are not part of the Java reflective bla
approach.

So yes, we don't have a lot of time to communicate about GLADE,
AdaBroker and PolyORB on the web or through press releases. But this
is not really our job :) But well, we do our best to use Ada to do our
research work. We communicate on it in conferences (therefore we
promote Ada mostly outside the Ada community).
 
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--  Laurent