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Re: Is Akka (cvs) working?



It's corba, how didn't I think of that ;(
Yes, I have used corba with Python (much more than that swig), but I am
now so relieved to see the akka.idl with only nine functions that I am
going to sleep.. So It has to wait till tomorrow..
Thanks,
k

On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:21, Chahine M. HAMILA wrote:
> Salaam Muhammed,
> Well, swig is already python ready. So you can actually have both perl AND
> python as Akka front-ends (the idea of using swig on the client side was to
> make it possible to develop client interfaces and dashboards etc, in
> everyone's favorite language with a minimum effort, it had been conceived to
> make it as extensible as it could be - but the problem seems that no one has
> taken advantage of it so it might not be needed in the end). The reason I
> mentioned C was that you would directly code the client out of the generated
> corba C interface. Now, if you mean calling the corba interface directly
> from a python client, then you can do that too of course, there's nothing in
> favor of any language or another. In fact that could be done in perl too and
> bypass the C-perl through swig interfacing. The only limitation of that is
> simply that it would be harder to add scripting languages on the client
> side, but as I just said, no one is taking advantage of it, so...
> Anyway, for what you want to do, and assuming we are keeping corba, you
> really don't need to dwell on fribidi or the whole daemon server code, you
> just need to understand the client side (which means only the IDL
> interface), which is trivial (in other words, if you have grips of corba
> with python it should only take you a few minutes to create a configuration
> script for your daemon or to start coding your own nifty client).
> So as first steps, I suggest:
> - if you never used corba and python: here are a few tutorials (I have no
> idea what they're worth, I have no knowledge of python, one of the folks to
> ask for more pointers here is Mohamad Elzubeir as far as python goes)
> http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/CORBA/Tutorials/Introduction/Tutorial_Python_1.html
> http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/omniORBpy/tutorial/
> - now if you know corba, then your life is magnitudes easier and you can
> already start coding, just check the akka IDL file, you should implement
> your client/configuration simply by calling the methods on the interface, I
> guess it shouldn't take you more than a few minutes.
> 
> Moe (Elzubeir) or Youssef or whoever is currently maintaining the arabeyes
> site, have you kept my old arabeyes page somewhere, it contained good
> pointers for those who wanted to hack Akka?
> Later!
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Muhammad Abdulmuneim Alkarouri
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Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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University of Khartoum
Khartoum, Sudan

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