Any interest in CORBA articles?
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I've been thinking about putting up some articles here on using CORBA in C++. I don't see much in the way of CORBA discussions amongst the articles here, and the ones that do are only in reference to it as a separate alternative. Over the past year I've been doing a lot of CORBA coding at work because we purchased a software package whose API is completely CORBA. I had to learn it out of necessity. If not for that, I might never have picked it up just because it always seemed like an enigma. Well I can now say that I love working with CORBA. It's not that hard to use and code for. There are lots of freeware ORB implementations out there now for a variety of languages, so it's not devastatingly expensive. It's one of the truly open standards (which has its own set of drawbacks) so there's no evil empire out there trying to control it. All that and it's fun, which is reason enough :) Before I bother writing anything, however, I thought I'd get a feel for whether anyone thinks some articles, ranging from beginner to more advanced, would even be useful. No sense spending the effort if everyone thinks it's a dead technology without purpose :laugh:
Ty
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein
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I've been thinking about putting up some articles here on using CORBA in C++. I don't see much in the way of CORBA discussions amongst the articles here, and the ones that do are only in reference to it as a separate alternative. Over the past year I've been doing a lot of CORBA coding at work because we purchased a software package whose API is completely CORBA. I had to learn it out of necessity. If not for that, I might never have picked it up just because it always seemed like an enigma. Well I can now say that I love working with CORBA. It's not that hard to use and code for. There are lots of freeware ORB implementations out there now for a variety of languages, so it's not devastatingly expensive. It's one of the truly open standards (which has its own set of drawbacks) so there's no evil empire out there trying to control it. All that and it's fun, which is reason enough :) Before I bother writing anything, however, I thought I'd get a feel for whether anyone thinks some articles, ranging from beginner to more advanced, would even be useful. No sense spending the effort if everyone thinks it's a dead technology without purpose :laugh:
Ty
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein
Dunno about anyone else but I for one would be very interested ! I'd love to see what you have done with it
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I've been thinking about putting up some articles here on using CORBA in C++. I don't see much in the way of CORBA discussions amongst the articles here, and the ones that do are only in reference to it as a separate alternative. Over the past year I've been doing a lot of CORBA coding at work because we purchased a software package whose API is completely CORBA. I had to learn it out of necessity. If not for that, I might never have picked it up just because it always seemed like an enigma. Well I can now say that I love working with CORBA. It's not that hard to use and code for. There are lots of freeware ORB implementations out there now for a variety of languages, so it's not devastatingly expensive. It's one of the truly open standards (which has its own set of drawbacks) so there's no evil empire out there trying to control it. All that and it's fun, which is reason enough :) Before I bother writing anything, however, I thought I'd get a feel for whether anyone thinks some articles, ranging from beginner to more advanced, would even be useful. No sense spending the effort if everyone thinks it's a dead technology without purpose :laugh:
Ty
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein
For good or bad, I think CORBA is going the way of COM for all the same wrong reasons. Come on everyone, let's jump on the XML-SOAP bandwagon!!!! :) Tim Smith "Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we can not avoid it... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather that part of the solution." Hoare - 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture
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I've been thinking about putting up some articles here on using CORBA in C++. I don't see much in the way of CORBA discussions amongst the articles here, and the ones that do are only in reference to it as a separate alternative. Over the past year I've been doing a lot of CORBA coding at work because we purchased a software package whose API is completely CORBA. I had to learn it out of necessity. If not for that, I might never have picked it up just because it always seemed like an enigma. Well I can now say that I love working with CORBA. It's not that hard to use and code for. There are lots of freeware ORB implementations out there now for a variety of languages, so it's not devastatingly expensive. It's one of the truly open standards (which has its own set of drawbacks) so there's no evil empire out there trying to control it. All that and it's fun, which is reason enough :) Before I bother writing anything, however, I thought I'd get a feel for whether anyone thinks some articles, ranging from beginner to more advanced, would even be useful. No sense spending the effort if everyone thinks it's a dead technology without purpose :laugh:
Ty
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein
I don't think CORBA is dead. I recently worked on a project that involved CORBA. Fortunately, I didn't have to write that part since somebody else did. However, I was interested in how it worked, but just didn't have the time to look into it. So, yes, I would be interested in the CORBA article. Bring it on!
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I've been thinking about putting up some articles here on using CORBA in C++. I don't see much in the way of CORBA discussions amongst the articles here, and the ones that do are only in reference to it as a separate alternative. Over the past year I've been doing a lot of CORBA coding at work because we purchased a software package whose API is completely CORBA. I had to learn it out of necessity. If not for that, I might never have picked it up just because it always seemed like an enigma. Well I can now say that I love working with CORBA. It's not that hard to use and code for. There are lots of freeware ORB implementations out there now for a variety of languages, so it's not devastatingly expensive. It's one of the truly open standards (which has its own set of drawbacks) so there's no evil empire out there trying to control it. All that and it's fun, which is reason enough :) Before I bother writing anything, however, I thought I'd get a feel for whether anyone thinks some articles, ranging from beginner to more advanced, would even be useful. No sense spending the effort if everyone thinks it's a dead technology without purpose :laugh:
Ty
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein
Yeah! I am interested too :)! ÿVOTD:17 "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." - Psalm 51:17
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I've been thinking about putting up some articles here on using CORBA in C++. I don't see much in the way of CORBA discussions amongst the articles here, and the ones that do are only in reference to it as a separate alternative. Over the past year I've been doing a lot of CORBA coding at work because we purchased a software package whose API is completely CORBA. I had to learn it out of necessity. If not for that, I might never have picked it up just because it always seemed like an enigma. Well I can now say that I love working with CORBA. It's not that hard to use and code for. There are lots of freeware ORB implementations out there now for a variety of languages, so it's not devastatingly expensive. It's one of the truly open standards (which has its own set of drawbacks) so there's no evil empire out there trying to control it. All that and it's fun, which is reason enough :) Before I bother writing anything, however, I thought I'd get a feel for whether anyone thinks some articles, ranging from beginner to more advanced, would even be useful. No sense spending the effort if everyone thinks it's a dead technology without purpose :laugh:
Ty
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein
TyMatthews wrote: No sense spending the effort if everyone thinks it's a dead technology without purpose Yes I think many would like to see some articles. CORBA's problem is like that between Mac and PC's. It is mostly religious. Those who are in the PRO CORBA camp (at least in my organizaton) have over sold what they can do with it and have given it a very bad name. But it is not dead. "If I won't be myself, who will?" Alfred Hitchcock
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I've been thinking about putting up some articles here on using CORBA in C++. I don't see much in the way of CORBA discussions amongst the articles here, and the ones that do are only in reference to it as a separate alternative. Over the past year I've been doing a lot of CORBA coding at work because we purchased a software package whose API is completely CORBA. I had to learn it out of necessity. If not for that, I might never have picked it up just because it always seemed like an enigma. Well I can now say that I love working with CORBA. It's not that hard to use and code for. There are lots of freeware ORB implementations out there now for a variety of languages, so it's not devastatingly expensive. It's one of the truly open standards (which has its own set of drawbacks) so there's no evil empire out there trying to control it. All that and it's fun, which is reason enough :) Before I bother writing anything, however, I thought I'd get a feel for whether anyone thinks some articles, ranging from beginner to more advanced, would even be useful. No sense spending the effort if everyone thinks it's a dead technology without purpose :laugh:
Ty
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein
Thanks for your input, everyone. I think I will start writing a few articles and begin posting them here on CP.
Ty
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein