On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:24:15 -0800, Steven E. Harris wrote
"Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> writes:
Also, the CORBA binding to C++ is a pain in my view -- someone could redo it with modern C++ and things would be much better,
Have you looked at ZeroC's Ice?¹
Yes, I read the docs a few months ago and it looks really good. These guys are incredibly smart about distributed computing and have been deeply involved in CORBA -- so they know the good, the bad, and the ugly of CORBA. Only thing is, they want to make money off their knowledge (see the license -- GPL for open source use, pay them for commercial) -- can't blame em. So this stuff won't be coming to the C++ standard or any other standard in the near future...
but I don't see anyone talking about that.
Doug Schmidt and Steve Vinoski have written several articles about the difficulty involved in updating the OMG C++ mapping. As I recall, they argued that it's not that everyone doesn't there's plenty of room for improvement, but rather that the interested parties had trouble finding consensus as to how to update the mapping.
That's too bad because leaving it alone means lots of heartache when doing CORBA programming -- makes me avoid it when I can. If the C++ mapping were cleaner I might have a better attitude toward using CORBA because it has some really nice and essential features for distributed programming. Jeff