A CORBA Language Mapping for Tcl
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Tcl is designed to be a powerful general-purpose scripting language and is often referred to as a glue language, to glue together various parts of an application. Often, these “various parts,” or components, are realized as C code that is registered with the interpreter as a custom command. It is easy to imagine these components as being distributed – a custom command could cause some sort of request to be sent over the network, returning the reply back to the script. CORBA is a hardware and vendor-independent de-facto standard for distributed computing. By specifying a CORBA language mapping for Tcl and providing access to an Object Request Broker, Tcl scripts can fully interoperate with other CORBA clients and servers. With the rapid application development features of Tcl and the connectivity of CORBA, the possibilities range from testing of existing CORBA services to graphical user interfaces with the aid of Tk, or even to script-based CORBA servers. This paper presents the CORBA language mapping for Tcl used in the Combat project, discusses its features and possible improvements, and makes comparisons with similar projects.
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