Re: Short introduction to CORBA components

Herman Bruyninckx wrote :
| During Anders' visit to Leuven, we have had interesting discussions on
| teh CORBA Component Model, and its useability for the project. An
| easy short overview of the CCM can be found in this PDF file:
|  <http://www.fpx.de/MicoCCM/download/mico-ccm.pdf>

I had only a quick look but it already seems to be very interesting (I'll
read the document in details).

I just wanted to mention that we have now decided to use IDL within
GenoM, for the data structures definition part (the headers included in
.gen files for services parameters and exported or imported data
structs definition).
If we want components written in different languages to be interoperable,
IDL seems to be best choice. The main part of the .gen files (services,
codels,...) will stil keep the syntax we have already presented, because
IDL doesn't provide enough semantics to do this.
It is interesting to see that the CCM has also defined some new IDL
tokens :)

GenoM will eventually embed a complete IDL parser (even if the
'interfaces' won't be used directly by genom) so that we will be able to
build a common object repository in an OO way :)