Subject: Re: CORBA (was: Re: POW: speed up bulk spell checking)
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 01:29:08 CDT
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Ben Mesman wrote:
> > On a totally unrelated topic:
> >
> > Do you know much about CORBA? We have all sorts of nice hooks in AbiWord
> > to enable it to be excuted by out-of-process functions. The gnome
> > platform has a very fast CORBA server, ORBit that would be ideal glue
> > between abiword and external programs but we have not yet done the work
> > write the CORBA IDL to integrate AbiWord into this. Is this something you
> > have expertise/interest in?
>
> No expertise, sorry. Interest, yes, but wouldn't that be a bit over
> the top as a project "to get into abiword"?
>
I actually think it would not be hard for someone with CORBA experience to
get all the commands usable from the application up and running.
All we need is nicely tied up in one easy to use class.
I guess I'll have another look through the gnome docs and example code and
see if I can get it working.
I just hoped that since you have Unix experience there was some chance
you'd used CORBA.
Cheers!
Martin
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