> > Here is an interesting one using CORBA:
> >
> > http://www.corba.org/industries/research/subaru.html
> >
> > It is probably old news, to most of you, new to me though.
>
> Subaru presented all this stuff at ADASS a long time ago. They had a lot
> of sleepless nights turning IRAF into a nice set of coherent callable
> routines. Last I heard the funky corba code actually launched a shell
> script at the backend to do the IRAF stuff. That may have changed but I
> doubt it.
Which is of course how the AG workflow system is implemented as well.
> An ADAM to CORBA migration should be fairly trivial since ADAM tasks are
> all engineered in the right way to start with.
*nod*
There might even be a SOAP<->CORBA translation layer available so we could
use the existing codebase.
Al.
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