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Conference pamsrc::objectbroker

Title:	ObjectBroker - BEA Systems' CORBA
Notice:	See note 3 for kits; note 5 for training; note 1134 for releases
Moderator:	TLE::PARODId

Created:	Tue Jul 11 1989
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1413
Total number of notes:	6391

1383.0. "IIOP-compliant ORB(s) wanted" by CPEEDY::COOK (Just say NO to that AccViO! - Java!!!) Mon Mar 17 1997 15:18

     
    
              -< IIOP-compliant ORB's wanted for experimentation >-
    
    (Cross-posted in Java conference)
    
    
    I'm hoping to find the time just to play a little with Corba (using
    Java).
    
    The textbook I bought on the subject ("Client/Server Programming with
    Java and Corba", authored by Orfali/Harkey, with the two green
    martians on the cover) mentions 3 commercial products:
    
    	(1) JavaSoft's CORBA IIOP ORB (aka 'Joe')
    	(2) Iona's OrbixWeb
    	(3) Visigenic's "VisiBroker for Java" (aka 'Black Widow')
    
    Does anyone here know the relative features/pricing of these
    products and of any similar alternatives?  (I'd like to find
    the most inexpensive ORB [that supports IIOP] that would work
    (on either OpenVMS or Windows-NT).)
    
    Also, I'd heard that our Corba-implementation on OpenVMS is
    being enhanced to support IIOP.  Is there a usable 'beta' of
    that which is reasonably stable?
    
    Thanks for any/all guidance.
    
    						Dave

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1383.1		SEND::SLAVIN		`Mon Mar 17 1997 16:54`	16
	> Does anyone here know the relative features/pricing of these > products and of any similar alternatives? (I'd like to find > the most inexpensive ORB [that supports IIOP] that would work > (on either OpenVMS or Windows-NT).) Look for Web pages form these companies. Some can be pulled for evaluation for free > > Also, I'd heard that our Corba-implementation on OpenVMS is > being enhanced to support IIOP. Is there a usable 'beta' of > that which is reasonably stable? ObjectBroker Bryce will be supporting IIOP on all server platforms. The first field test will be late summer 1997.
1383.2	Xref	VAXCPU::michaud	Jeff Michaud - ObjectBroker	`Mon Mar 17 1997 23:14`	10
	1296 EMNTAL::STADELMANN 22-AUG-1996 6 Support of Smalltalk via IIOP 1312 ROM01::LILLI 18-SEP-1996 7 IIOP availability 1144 PRMS00::PBAER 25-JAN-1996 6 Any plans for a JAVA interface? 1193 FBEDEV::KYZIVAT 1-APR-1996 0 Tivoli/Sun announcement re: internet/Java/CORBA 1280 HOUBA::MEHERS 24-JUL-1996 3 Java<->COM<->OBB 1285 HAN::DOERING 31-JUL-1996 1 Java/OBB Dates ? 1289 SOS6::BERNARD 6-AUG-1996 1 ObjectBroker to support Java : when ? 1315 HYDRA::AXPDEVELOPER 19-SEP-1996 2 Java Bindings Support Project? 1325 HOUBA::MEHERS 28-OCT-1996 0 FYI: WWW Browser-WWW-Server-Java-OBB-Legacy APP
1383.3	dont limit yourself unnecessarily	LEMAN::DONALDSON	Froggisattva! Froggisattva!	`Fri Mar 21 1997 10:51`	12
	You dont need an IIOP compliant ORB to interact with Java in every case. Java servers can call out to ObjectBroker which can then contact ObjectBroker servers with no problem. If you want to use a Java applet on the client which interacts with the Visigenic ORB (bundled in Netscape ONE) which then makes requests to another ORB server, THEN you need the server ORB to be interoperable. John D.
1383.4		EMNTAL::STADELMANN	Sepp @ZUO 760-2609	`Mon Apr 14 1997 10:25`	8
	So this are in fact two different architectural approaches, one calls from the server side into the ORB world while the second mentioned calles from the Client side, out of an applet or a JAVA Apps into the ORB world. My thougths, for future projects consider IIOP as a must have req. Sepp,