[PolyORB-users] Plans for D-Bus support in PolyOrb?

[Ludovic Brenta]

Thomas Quinot <quinot at adacore.com> writes:
> * Chris, 2012-03-08 :
>
>> Wondering if there are any plans for adding D-Bus support to
>> PolyOrb. Or more generally support for a backend who's primary and
>> probably sole purpose is for efficient communication across the local
>> system bus. Maybe Posix Queues, or some other more advanced method.
>
> The PolyORB architecture has been designed to allow that sort of thing.
> POSIX message queues might not be moch more efficient than a local
> socket though. Another potentially promising option is the use of shared
> memory segments, to avoid some copying of data.
>
> I have given a look to DBus lately, would also be an interesting
> project, but a bit more development that just having GIOP over shm.
>
> We do not have current plans to implement such new transports; however
> we'll be happy to review and consider external contributions for
> integration in this area.

You both might like to know that, Reto Buerki has already written an Ada
binding to DBus:

http://www.codelabs.ch/download/

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.