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- From: anderson@bigun.enet.dec.com (Keith J. Anderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: Wanted info. on OMG, ORB, CORBA
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.011946.8274@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 18:09:01 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.163416.6528@advtech.uswest.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation (Australia)
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- > Is there news of any company shipping an ORB( Object Request Broker)
- >as defined by the OMG group. I've heard HyperDesk(sp) is shipping
- >one but I don't have their address. Any info. would be appreciated.
-
- Steve,
-
- I doubt if anyone is yet shipping anything that implements everything in
- the CORBA spec (maybe Hyperdesk does?). Anyway, as yet there is no test
- for compliance, compatibility. Digital is shipping a set of products called ACA
- Services, and V2.1 is announced and shipping now. V2.1 provides clients and
- servers for Open VMS, RISC/ULTRIX, and SunOS; and a client for MS Windows 3.
- Digital submitted ACA Services to OMG for the CORBA spec, and so I'm told that
- the dynamic binding part of CORBA grew from that. Later versions of ACA
- Services will provide the static binding, and an CORBA API. ACA Services has
- been in use within Digital for a few years now, its pretty amazing what you can
- do. We use it for live-linking documents, tables, sheets, graphics,
- applications, integrating CASE tools with CDD/Repository, integrating process
- control data collection systems with analysis tools (see the range of DEC
- @aGlance products, that you use, say from Windows 3, to define links to process
- applications). We're pretty excited by it!
-
- Thanks for asking :-)
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