MICO-0.1 ======== Perl Interface to MICO (Mico Is COrba) version 0.1. Status ====== Basic client and server functionality is currently working. Quite a few things are left to be done. A few of them are: - Arrays - Constants - Activation modes other than Persistant None of these are particularly hard to do given what works now - they just haven't been done yet. Documentation ============= General information about a mapping of CORBA onto Perl is in the available in the file 'MICO/mapping.pod' while specifics about MICO are in 'MICO.pm'. Information about the internals of the module is in 'MICO/internals.pod' These POD documents can be viewed on the screen using the 'perldoc' program: perldoc MICO/mapping.pod or converted to a variety of formats, for example: pod2html MICO/mapping.pod > MICO/mapping.html They will also be installed as manual pages. The file MICO/internals.ps is a diagram that may be useful for figuring out MICO/internals.pod. Installation ============ To compile and run this package, you'll need to have MICO installed. Information about MICO is availaible from: http://diamant-atm.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~mico/ You'll also need Graham Barr's Error module (available from CPAN in the directory: http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/GBARR/ ) and a reasonable recent version of Perl. (This is only been tested with perl-5.004_58, but it should work with the stable perl-5.004_04 as well, and probably even earlier versions). Once you have MICO installed, to build this package, first edit Makefile.PL, if necessary. The only thing that will probably need to be changed is the line: 'LIBS' => ['-lmico2.0.2 -lstdc++'], Change -lmico2.0.2 to reflect whatever version you have installed. (This problem wouldn't occur if MICO set up the correct symbolic links when installed) Then simply type: perl Makefile.PL make The package then can be installed by executing the command: make install Trying it Out ============= To start the interface repository, load in the Account.idl interface file, and create an appropriate .micorc, run the script ./start-servers.sh Run the Perl server program in the background: perl -Mblib server & And then run the client program: perl -Mblib client You should see output that looks something like: -------- Balance is 500 Favorite color is taupe Lottery numbers are 21 63 83 96 Favorite color is now chartreuse As an any: favorite color is now chartreuse Withdrawing $100,000 Oops. I don't have that much money (I need 99500 more) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Caught Exception: CORBA::OBJECT_NOT_EXIST ('IDL:omg.org/CORBA/OBJECT_NOT_EXIST:1.0') (0, COMPLETED_NO) Non-existent object, delete reference, while counting with a destroyed counter Successful completion ---------- ================= License ------- This work is Copyright Owen Taylor, 1998, and licensed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL) See the included file for details.