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author | Lars Thorsen <[email protected]> | 2018-04-25 15:09:14 +0200 |
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committer | Lars Thorsen <[email protected]> | 2018-04-27 12:05:30 +0200 |
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Move the corba applcations to separate repository
All corba applications are moved to a separate repository.
E.g. orber, ic, cosEvent, cosEventDomain, cosNotifications
cosTime, cosTransactions, cosProperty and cosFileTransfer.
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diff --git a/lib/ic/doc/src/ch_introduction.xml b/lib/ic/doc/src/ch_introduction.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 9ac2f96a95..0000000000 --- a/lib/ic/doc/src/ch_introduction.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,149 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> -<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> - -<chapter> - <header> - <copyright> - <year>1998</year><year>2016</year> - <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> - </copyright> - <legalnotice> - Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); - you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. - You may obtain a copy of the License at - - http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 - - Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software - distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, - WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. - See the License for the specific language governing permissions and - limitations under the License. - - </legalnotice> - - <title>Using the IC Compiler</title> - <prepared></prepared> - <docno></docno> - <date>2002-08-02</date> - <rev>PB1</rev> - <file>ch_introduction.xml</file> - </header> - - <section> - <title>Introduction</title> - <p>The IC application is an IDL compiler implemented in Erlang. - The IDL compiler generates client stubs and server skeletons. - Several back-ends are supported, and they fall into three main - groups.</p> - <p>The first group consists of a CORBA back-end:</p> - <taglist> - <tag>IDL to Erlang CORBA</tag> - <item> - <p>This back-end is for CORBA communication and implementation, - and the generated code uses the CORBA specific protocol for - communication between clients and servers. See the - <em>Orber</em> application User's Guide and manuals for - further details.</p> - </item> - </taglist> - <p>The second group consists of a simple Erlang back-end:</p> - <taglist> - <tag>IDL to plain Erlang</tag> - <item> - <p>This back-end provides a very simple Erlang client - interface. It can only be used within an Erlang node, - and the communication between client and "server" is - therefore in terms of ordinary function calls. </p> - <p>This back-end can be considered a short-circuit version of - the IDL to Erlang gen_server back-end (see further below).</p> - </item> - </taglist> - <p>The third group consists of backends for Erlang, C, and - Java. The communication between clients and servers is by the - Erlang distribution protocol, facilitated by - <em>erl_interface</em> and <em>jinterface</em> for C and Java, - respectively.</p> - <p>All back-ends of the third group generate code compatible with - the Erlang gen_server behavior protocol. Thus generated client - code corresponds to <c>call()</c> or <c>cast()</c> of an Erlang - <c>gen_server</c>. Similarly, generated server code corresponds - to <c>handle_call()</c> or <c>handle_cast()</c> of an Erlang - <c>gen_server</c>.</p> - <p>The back-ends of the third group are: - </p> - <taglist> - <tag>IDL to Erlang gen_server</tag> - <item> - <p>Client stubs and server skeletons are generated. Data types - are mapped according to the IDL to Erlang mapping described - in the <em>Orber User's Guide</em>.</p> - <p></p> - </item> - <tag>IDL to C client</tag> - <item> - <p>Client stubs are generated. The mapping of data types is - described further on in the C client part of this guide.</p> - </item> - <tag>IDL to C server</tag> - <item> - <p>Server skeletons are generated. The mapping of data types is - described further on in the C server part of this guide.</p> - </item> - <tag>IDL to Java</tag> - <item> - <p>Client stubs and server skeletons are generated. The mapping - of data types is described further on in the Java part of - this guide.</p> - </item> - </taglist> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Compilation of IDL Files</title> - <p>The IC compiler is invoked by executing the generic <c>erlc</c> - compiler from a shell:</p> - <code type="none"> -%> erlc +'{be,BackEnd}' File.idl - </code> - <p>where <c>BackEnd</c> is according to the table below, and - <c>File.idl</c> is the IDL file to be compiled.</p> - <table> - <row> - <cell align="left" valign="middle"><em>Back-end</em></cell> - <cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>BackEnd</c>option</cell> - </row> - <row> - <cell align="left" valign="middle">IDL to CORBA</cell> - <cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>erl_corba</c></cell> - </row> - <row> - <cell align="left" valign="middle">IDL to CORBA template</cell> - <cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>erl_template</c></cell> - </row> - <row> - <cell align="left" valign="middle">IDL to plain Erlang</cell> - <cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>erl_plain</c></cell> - </row> - <row> - <cell align="left" valign="middle">IDL to Erlang gen_server</cell> - <cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>erl_genserv</c></cell> - </row> - <row> - <cell align="left" valign="middle">IDL to C client</cell> - <cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>c_client</c></cell> - </row> - <row> - <cell align="left" valign="middle">IDL to C server</cell> - <cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>c_server</c></cell> - </row> - <row> - <cell align="left" valign="middle">IDL to Java</cell> - <cell align="left" valign="middle"><c>java</c></cell> - </row> - <tcaption>Compiler back-ends and options</tcaption> - </table> - <p>For more details on IC compiler options consult the ic(3) manual page.</p> - </section> -</chapter> - |