Using reflexivity to interface with CORBA

Author

Ierusalimschy, Roberto ; Cerqueira, Renato ; Rodriguez, Noemi

Author_Institution

Dept. de Inf., Pontificia Univ. Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

1998

fDate

14-16 May 1998

Firstpage

39

Lastpage

46

Abstract

Most bindings to CORBA are based on the construction of stubs, which translate a language call into a CORBA invocation. The paper shows an alternative way to build a binding, using the reflexive facilities of an interpreted language. Like other CORBA bindings, this binding allows a program to manipulate CORBA objects in the same way it manipulates local objects. Unlike conventional bindings however, it is based on the CORBA Dynamic Invocation Interface, mapping its dynamic character to the dynamic type system of the language. In this way, a program has immediate access to any CORBA component, without the need of stubs or pre-defined IDL headers

Keywords

object-oriented languages; object-oriented methods; object-oriented programming; program interpreters; type theory; CORBA Dynamic Invocation Interface; CORBA bindings; CORBA interface; CORBA invocation; CORBA objects; Common Object Request Broker; dynamic character; dynamic type system; interpreted language; language call; local objects; reflexive facilities; reflexivity; stubs; Application software; Computer languages; Electrical capacitance tomography; Java; Programming profession; Proposals; Prototypes; Software reusability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Languages, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1074-8970

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8454-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCL.1998.674155

Filename

674155