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-Thread: a07f3367d7,6ca5f0d94d4c145 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.mv.net!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Distributed Computing in Ada Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:29:46 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <7f8194ed-26d1-4a38-841b-6cb910b10ce4@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <7ea2b1c2-a011-456e-9ec2-10c4ab75ee05@r38g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1251462586 18473 192.74.137.71 (28 Aug 2009 12:29:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:29:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dKgdlSgFx4aIZF2rPekziWl1Jm0= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8034 Date: 2009-08-28T08:29:46-04:00 List-Id: abyhoe 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