OmniOrb or TAO on AXP OpenVMS 8.2

[Tomas Stehlik]

Hi all,

Is there anybody who install and tested OmniOrb or TAO on AXP OpenVMS 8.2?

I just try to install OmniOrb 4.0.6. If there is anybody with the same problem pls contact me.

Tomas Stehlik

[Arch_Muthiah]

I am not sure the latest OmniORB version has been tested for OpenVMS 8.2.

We have used DIAS ORB on OpenVMS 7.3-2, it was working fine, easy to install, not like this OmniORB installation and it needs lots of parameters setup involved in this.

This issue has been discussed in this forum earlier,....
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=819850

But anyway the following link gives and related docs, may be usefull for you.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/DTG/attarchive/omniORB/omniORB_3/README_openvms.html

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/DTG/attarchive/omniORB/omniORB_3/README_openvms_v6.html


Archunan

[Tomas Stehlik]

Thx for tips.

After installation of current Python 2.3.5 and compilation of OmniOrb 4.0.6 on OpenVMS OMNIIDL can't correctly call Python.

I had step back and installed old Python 1.5.2, recompile OmniOrb 4.0.6 and now OMNIIDL works OK.

There was necessary to add some files for OpenVMS 8.2 to satisfied platform check in OmniORB make, format of ...VMS]setup.com is corrupted etc.

Some files has dots in names so

$ set proc/parsing=extend

Is there some maintener of VMS for OmniOrb open source project to whom I can send details about necessary corrections?

Tomas

[Arch_Muthiah]

Tomas,

The current release is omniORB 4.0.6 and it has not been tested on any version of OpenVMS, It has been tested only Solaris, Windows, Linux, HP UX, and AIX by AT & T.

But Old version of omniORB has been tested to run on OpenVMS V6.x (on VAX and Alpha).

After AT&T closure, omniORB become an independant project and maintained by the original developers.

Now omniORB is commercially supported by Apasphere Ltd. http://www.apasphere.com/.

I hope there will be Telephone support for this product, but not for OpenVMS. Anyway you can equire.

As I said, even we discarded development DIAS ORB as HP stopped supporting DIAS's ORB on OpenVMS as now VMS itself having JAVA, and CORBA.

Good luck.

Archunan

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

We do know that some companies have their own port of TAO for OpenVMS. We as Remedy IT are trying to get a full opensource distribution of TAO for OpenVMS, see www.theaceorb.nl for info on this.

Regards,

Johnny Willemsen

[Jean-François Piéronne]

Tomas,

what's the problem with Python 2.3.5 is it a Python problem, a Python VMS problem or a OmniOrb problem?


Jean-François

[Tomas Stehlik]

Hi Jean-Francois

Problem was OmniOrb 4.0.6 omniidl.

Omniidl is OpenVMS wrap that call Python to compile IDL.

It seems that this wrap doesn't match with actual Python 2.3.5 so I had to step back to Python 1.5.2.

OpenVMS part in OmniOrb should be actualised for OpenVMS 8.2 and to be able to call properly actual version of Python also.

Tomas