"Johnny Willemsen" <jwillemsen@remedy.nl>: We are talking with various users of TAO to see if we can create a new modern IDL to C++ mapping. The idea is to drop all old compilers which lead to the current mapping and make a new IDL to C++ mapping that is using the latest draft C++0x standard.
We want to use full STL, shared_ptr, r-value, and everything else we could need. The idea is to prototype this first in TAO and than see if on the long term we can propose a new IDL to C++ V2 mapping to the OMG
This would be very welcome and something I've hoped would happen for a long time (I keep checking the OMG web site for efforts in this area, but keep being disappointed). I'll be happy to help in whatever way I can (and as time allows). I've used ACE for many years and TAO for a couple of years on a couple of work projects, but my Corba knowledge is fairly limited (and I don't know any of the internals and protocol details, yet). I would guess that a nice IDL to C++ mapping could be done with C++03 and TR1 , sprinkled in with some Boost libraries (that hopefully could / should be standardized, e.g. boost::any), and maybe a few C++0x features that really simplify things. Are there C++0x features that are "must haves"? (Lambdas, auto, decltype? I would think move semantics / r-value operations are mostly optimizations, but maybe I'm missing something major.) Cliff