CORBA::ORBit 0.4.3
==================
CORBA::ORBit is a Perl binding for ORBit. It is based
on code from my earlier module CORBA::MICO, which
was a binding for MICO.
Status
======
Most things work in this release. You can write clients
and servers using a large fraction of the ORBit
types. Some things don't - WChar and WString types are not
yet implemented; and the POA implementation is not
complete.
The interface-repository interface needs some work. First,
the ORBit interface repository needs to be finished.
Finally, it would be nice to be able to do same-address-space
communication with a C ORBit interface. To do this
requires some trickery and rewriting in ORBit so that
you can marshal to a buffer then demarshal in the
same process.
Installation
============
To compile and run this package, you'll need to have
ORBit, version 0.5.0 or better installed. (CORBA::ORBit triggers
bug in the support for typecodes in earlier versions
of orbit.) Information about ORBit is available from:
http://www.labs.redhat.com/orbit/
The latest version of ORBit is available from:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ORBit/
RPM's for redhat 6.0 and 6.1 are available from:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/gnome-1.0.53/redhat/
You'll also need Graham Barr's Error module - available
from CPAN in the directory:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/GBARR/
And a reasonable recent version of Perl. (This has been
tested with perl5.004_04, and perl5.005_03.
perl5.005_02 had a problem where uncaught exceptions
didn't get properly stringified.)
Once you have ORBit installed, to build this package,
simply type:
perl Makefile.PL
make
The package then can be installed by executing the command:
make install
Trying it Out
=============
Run the Perl server program in the background:
perl -Mblib server &
And then run the client program:
perl -Mblib client
You should see output that looks something like:
----------
Using /home/otaylor/work/orbit-perl/blib
Oops. I don't have that much money
(I need +99083.35 more)
Balance is +916.65
Favorite color is chartreuse
Lottery numbers are 1 2 3 4
Nickname is Grumpy
/****\
; ;
[ O O ]
l \ l
; -- ;
;;;;
Favorite color is now chartreuse
As an any: favorite color is now chartreuse
As an any: nickname is now Grumpy
2 * 1,000,000,000,0000 pennies = 20000000000000 pennies
Withdrawing $100,000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Caught Exception: CORBA::OBJECT_NOT_EXIST ('IDL:omg.org/CORBA/OBJECT_NOT_EXIST:1.0')
(0, COMPLETED_NO)
Non-existent object, delete reference
, while counting with a destroyed counter
Successful completion
----------
Trying the GTK Demo
===================
To use this demo you must have GTK installed on your system
and the Kenneth Albanowski's Gtk module for perl (version 0.5 or
later). Both are available from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk
Run two copies of the 'tictactoe' program
perl -Mblib tictactoe &
perl -Mblib tictactoe &
Documentation
=============
General information about a mapping of CORBA onto Perl is in
the available in the file 'ORBit/mapping.pod'. This POD
document can be viewed on the screen using the 'perldoc' program:
perldoc ORBit/mapping.pod
or converted to a variety of formats, for example:
pod2html ORBit/mapping.pod > ORBit/mapping.html
They will also be installed as manual pages.
The HTML form can also be found at:
http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/corba/mapping.html
License
=======
This work is Copyright Owen Taylor, 1998-1999, and licensed
under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL)
See the included file LICENSE-LGPL for details.
The contents of the file constsub.c are from the Perl distribution
and licensed accordingly.