Distributed Objects and the World Wide Web: 2

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Status

Initial versions of the HTTP to IIOP and IIOP to HTTP gateways are running. Modified versions of the new Arena browser (from W3C) and the Line Mode browser (supplied with the WWW library) are also running, using IIOP as their native protocol.

We plan to release the code into the public domain in December 1995.

A CORBA wrapper for web objects describes some of our earlier work on integrating existing systems into WWW. We use CORBA IDL to describe CGI gateways. A stub compiler is able to generate most of the code for the CGI gateway and also a template HTML form to drive the gateway. The prototype code is already available.

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Converted from text 30 Nov 1995 by <rtor@ansa.co.uk>