Re: Distributed Computing in Ada

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

abyhoe <abyhoe@gmail.com> writes:

> I am a little bit curious on this: Does Ada require PolyOrb etc to
> support Annex E?

I'm not sure what you mean.  Ada requires something like PolyORB to
support Annex E.  But PolyORB is just one implementation of Annex E,
and it also supports much more than Annex E (for example, it supports
CORBA, which is a whole 'nother way of doing distributed systems).

PolyORB is part of GNAT.  It wouldn't work to just compile PolyORB using
some other Ada compiler that doesn't know about PolyORB, because it
depends on certain features of GNAT.  For example, the GNAT compiler
knows how to generate the "client stubs" and "server stubs" that are
used to implement remote procedure calls in PolyORB.

Does that answer your question?

- Bob