From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cb0c0deb57c863d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Laurent Pautet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: PolyORB 1.1r Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:18:58 +0200 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: References: <1402068.EaGq6u8sQY@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dorine.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1086772738 12286 137.194.160.65 (9 Jun 2004 09:18:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:18:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tFliaDaTWHbQS4zSSxFJnWoG7ho= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1291 Date: 2004-06-09T11:18:58+02:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik 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). -- -- Laurent