README.dxy

/** \dir src/Corba

    \brief Classes for Corba functionality

    This is the implementations of Corba for the saliency code.

    What is Corba?

    CORBA is the acronym for Common Object Request Broker
    Architecture, OMG's open, vendor-independent architecture and
    infrastructure that computer applications use to work together
    over networks. Using the standard protocol IIOP, a CORBA-based
    program from any vendor, on almost any computer, operating system,
    programming language, and network, can interoperate with a
    CORBA-based program from the same or another vendor, on almost any
    other computer, operating system, programming language, and
    network.

    For more info see 
    http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/corbafaq.htm 

    This implementation of corba is called omniorb and was obtained
    from http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/

src/Corba:  Main directory contains various 
            utility to deal with corba object as well 
            as Image functions for transfer.

            MakeIdl: will make the stubs for various idl files

            ImageOrb.idl: idl file to handle the Image class

            ImageOrbUtil.H: utility to convert from an Image class to corba
               type and vice versa

src/Corba/Objects: Contains the various corba objects

src/tests:   tests the corba objects
    EchoImage: simple test to echo an image over the network



for a simple test see Objects/EchoImageServer and
test/EchoImageClient

after compiling by
make corba


Note that for this example to work the onminames needs to be running and
configured properly. That is, the /etc/omniORB.cfg needs to be pointing 
to the same server.



How To Run The Tests:
To Run the EchoImage

To run type bin/EchoImageServer on any server (even on the local
server): The EchoImageServer will register itself with the corba name
server and then go into daemon mode by detaching from the terminal.
However if --debug is passed then the server would not detach from the terminal
and would echo any info messages. 


To send the image type EchoImageClinet <image> (where <image> is
an image file like test.ppm)

for dependency graphs:
rankdir: TB
 */

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