> I have been snooping around for info on my earlier proposal on DCE. I
> found a paper on the issue,
> quite interesting reading actually.
>
> http://www.chips.chalmers.se/Chips/dokumentation/rapporter/OS-DCE.html
See also http://www,mitre.org/research/domis/reports/DCEvCORBA.html To
oversimplify, CORBA is better for Object-Oriented work, and has some
low-level capabilities that DCE lacks. However, DCE has more high-level
capabilities (distributed file system, for example).
An Ada implementation, using CORBA, of some significant DCE subsystem
might be another big "seller."
It would also be nice if more Ada compilers validated Annex E. I know of
at least one vendor who has stated to at least one customer that since
CORBA, the Ada Annex E is superfluous and they won't waste money on it.
Similarly, I know of Ada programmers that say Annex E is useless because
it's Ada-only, and one-language systems are a thing of the past.
What about an ASIS tool that creates CORBA IDL from Annex E package
specs? Or non-Ada bindings to Ada specs? (Instead of the reverse).
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Wes Groleau
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