[XML-SIG] WSDL library ?

[Rich Salz]

I said Corba's model is simple, not single. :)

I thought Corba required every object to have a type, and that com/corba 
gateways defined a ComObject type.

It's good to know RMI and DCOM can be made to fit inside the Corba model.

> AFAIK, in DCE IDL, you have have a void* field in an struct, and then
> you use attributes of the field (like unique, size, etc) to indicate
> whether this pointer may be shared, and whether the pointer is to
> a single object or an array of objects, in which case you need somehow
> specify the size of the array. It seems easy to get wrong.


DCE IDL cannot marshall void*, only typed pointers.  Arrays are not 
supported as a primitive concept, you have to use an attribute to 
indicate which parameter holds the length.  That is because DCE IDL is 
"close to the wire"; a VisualBasic or Python IDL compiler could omit the 
length_is(foo) declaration, and have the runtime get it automatically 
from the language's facilities.  (Just like Corba does.)

The other attributes, about pointer sharing -- pointer_defalt(unique), 
etc., are optimization hints the compiler can use when generating stubs. 
(Remember the short-lived C keyword "noalias"? :)
	/r$


> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 



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