[DaGuy]

I'm trying to teach myself about the CORBA standard (work related) and would like to get some hands experience via C++ . Can any of you suggest the path of least resistance? Of course, I would like to do everything on MacOSX. I have the Developer Tools installed so I know I have C++ the issue is getting a suitable ORB and some tutorials. Any feedback will appreciated.

Thanks!

[cutterjohn]

Originally posted by DaGuy:
I'm trying to teach myself about the CORBA standard (work related) and would like to get some hands experience via C++ . Can any of you suggest the path of least resistance? Of course, I would like to do everything on MacOSX. I have the Developer Tools installed so I know I have C++ the issue is getting a suitable ORB and some tutorials. Any feedback will appreciated.

Thanks!

well, you'd be better off on the strictly *NIX/X side where there is:
ORBit

The GNOME project makes use of it in various ways, as does KDE, I believe. So source from those projects would probably be your best bets for examples, as I really can't think of any other OSS that makes use of CORBA. The GIMP might use it, but I'm not sure...

It's pretty uncommon. The only other place I heard of it used was by a local *NIX proprietary network stack niche developer. And I'm not even certain where they would get such a great use out of CORBA there...

[DaGuy]

Thanks for tip. Actually, I got pass this hurdle. I came accross omniORB4 at

http:/ omniorb.sourceforge.net

and so far it works really great. Below are the steps that I took to build and configure on MacOSX 10.2.2. Bear in mind, that I am not making claims on "how correct" these are but they did work for me:

SETUP INSTRUCTIONS FOR OmniORB 4.0.0 on MacOS X 10.2.2 (Jaguar with Developer Tools Installed)

1. DOWNLOAD omniORB-4.0.0.tar INTO A DIRECTORY OF CHOICE. I CHOSE /usr/local/corba

2. FROM THE COMMAND LINE

$cd /usr/local/corba
$tar -xvf omni*
$ cd /usr/local/corba/omniORB-4.0.0
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure --disable-static --enable-thread-tracing --with-openssl=/usr
$ make

3. USE THE PROVIDED SAMPLE CONFIGURATION FILE AS A STARTING POINT

$cd /usr/local/corba/omniORB-4.0.0
$cp sample.cfg omniORB.cfg

4. ADD THE FOLLOWING TO YOUR ENVIRONMENT (I'M USING THE TCSH SHELL)

setenv OMNINAMES_LOGDIR /usr/local/corba/omniORB-4.0.0/build/logs
setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/corba/omniORB-4.0.0/build/lib
setenv DYLD_BIND_AT_LAUNCH 1
setenv OMNIORB_CONFIG /usr/local/corba/omniORB-4.0.0/omniORB.cfg
set path = ($path /usr/local/corba/omniORB-4.0.0/build/bin)

5. BUILD AND RUN THE ECHO EXAMPLE

$cd /usr/local/corba/omniORB-4.0.0/build/src/examples/echo
$ make
$ ./eg1

6. ENJOY!