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From: "Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Visual Basic and ADA95
Date: 1999/10/21
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Ray Blaak wrote in message ...
>"Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com> writes:
>> Mike Biedronski wrote in message <380CBFA4.BB241336@fmr.com>...
>> As for communicating between front  end and Ada core
>> system there are several options:
>>
>> 1. [DLL]
>> 2. [sockets, pipes, CORBA]
>> 2.1 [java and sockets/JNI]
>
>If I had to do it I would use the DLL approach, but an ActiveX
>(i.e. automation) DLL, rather than a direct DLL.


Yes, this is also very good option.

>
>This gives a loose binding similar to CORBA, but is much more natural to
use on
>a Windows platform with VB than any of the other choices mentioned so far
>(assuming, of course, that you require VB for the front end).

It is just as natural in Delphi as in VB (may be even more natural than in
VB)
to create and use  ActiveX components.
As far as CORBA concerned  Delphi 5 has visiBroker component
which make it easy to build distributed applications based
on CORBA technology.

Regards,
Vladimir Olensky