Go-CORBA

A Go implementation of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) specification.

Overview

Go-CORBA provides a complete Software Development Kit (SDK) for building CORBA applications in Go. It enables developers to create distributed systems where objects written in Go can interact with objects written in other programming languages that implement the CORBA standard.

Features

• CORBA IDL (Interface Definition Language) support
• ORB (Object Request Broker) implementation
• GIOP/IIOP protocol support
• Naming Service integration
• Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII)
• Type management and marshaling

Installation

go get github.com/ifabos/go-corba

Usage

Basic example of creating a CORBA server:

package main

import (
    "github.com/ifabos/go-corba/orb"
    "github.com/ifabos/go-corba/naming"
)

func main() {
    // Initialize the ORB
    myORB := orb.Init()
    
    // Create a server instance
    server := myORB.CreateServer()
    
    // Register an object
    // ...
    
    // Run the server
    server.Run()
}

IDL Compiler

The Go-CORBA SDK includes an IDL compiler (idlgen) that translates CORBA IDL files to Go code.

IDL Include Support

The IDL compiler fully supports the CORBA standard #include directive:

• System includes: #include <file.idl>
• User includes: #include "file.idl"

Include resolution follows the standard CORBA rules:

• User includes ("file.idl") are first searched relative to the including file, then in the include path
• System includes (<file.idl>) are searched in the include path

# Example usage with include paths
idlgen -i myservice.idl -I /path/to/includes,/another/path -o ./generated

Other IDL Features

The IDL compiler also supports:

• Repository IDs with #pragma ID directive
• Module prefixes with #pragma prefix directive
• Circular references detection and resolution
• Nested includes

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.