Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:46:17 +0200
From: Ron Resnick <resnick@interlog.com>
To: Marcel Ruff <mr@neurotec.de>
Subject: Re: Java-VisiBroker CORBA on Linux with Blackdown Java 1.16/1.17 Howto

Here's just a minor update to the excellent "HOWTO" Marcel Ruff
forwarded last week on running VisiBroker for Java, on Linux:

Marcel Ruff wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> after some mails about VisiBroker, here are some hints how to run
> VisiBroker on Linux:
> 
> 1) Everything from VisiBroker runs fine on Linux (pure Java), but not
> the osagent process
> which is nativ binary (and not supported on Linux)

Not only is it native binary, but it's a windows (as opposed to dos)
app. I tried to run osagent under dosemu on linux, hoping to 
avoid needing a dangling windows box on the network just for this
purpose. Unfortunately, I get the standard 'must run this app under
windows' message :-(. 
Bizarre, too, since osagent does fire up a window, but never
does anything with it. Why they couldn't keep it as a background
task, executable from a dos shell, is beyond me. (Though that's
hardly the only example of poor Visibroker design).

I've never run wine - any thoughts on whether it's worth trying
to get osagent running on wine, or would I be wasting my time
barking up this tree?

Otherwise, everything worked just fine. My CORBA apps (I've now
ported over about 4 from NT) run very smoothly 
over Blackdown (1.1.7v1a on x86).

Ron