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[jarl van katwijk]

>
> Yuppers. This feature has actually been in there for a while and so the
> IDL is "semi-stable" (although now we might make a few name changes to
> make things more compiant with our current naming scheme for things). All
> of the communication is through a CORBA interface (no cheating at all :-)
> so we are ready at any time for someone to write a user interface in a
> different language. Additionally, the user interface should not have to
> access the filesystem at all, so we should be able to run a user
> interface on one machine and the definition layer on another. Of course,
> right now things are just set up to run everything on the same machine,
> but in the future we should be able to add hooks to do stuff like this
> without too many problems. Now I remember why I like CORBA so much :-)

Sounds good!
I'm currently working on rewriting the BL sources so that they use OOP C++ Corba
code, and will use this specialised software http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/flick/
for IDL compilation. Maybe we can make the autoconfigure so that it tries to use
Flick, and if it's not availeble it falls back on the default OMNIorb idl
compiler?

bye,
jarl