The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
>> GNOME then adopted ORBit, which has two wins: it's in C, and (this is
>> the biggy) it has provisions to shortcut parameter marshalling,
>
> My experience is that for pretty much every pro, there is a
>con...what are we losing with ORBit that we'd have with mico? Short
>and/or long term? mico is reputed to be Corba 2.2 compliant..orbit?
The big con for ORBit, short term:
% cd /usr/src/gnome/ORBit-0.3.0 % find . -name "*.c" -exec grep "Not yet implemented" {} \; | wc 857
2613 30302
That's 857 items specified in the IDL for ORBit that are currently empty
functions.
I think long-term, with the financial backing of RedHat, and the key role
it plays in the GNOME, I think ORBit will be the premier open-source ORB.
-Michael