mnesia_session

[Niclas Eklund]

I agree with Hal - it depends on your application, but the other languages
shouldn't(?!) be a problem. CORBA language mappings (that I know of):

 * Erlang
 * C/C++
 * Smalltalk
 * Ada
 * Java
 * Lisp
 * COBOL
 * Python
 * Tcl
 * Perl

Understanding IDL is rather simple; for those who have used C/C++ or Java
it's just like a walk in the park and a compact way to define your
API (especially compared to, for example, XML etc). You can find a
step-by-step description via:

http://www.erlang.org/doc/r9c/lib/orber-3.4.2/doc/html/ch_idl_to_erlang_mapping.html#6

/Nick

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Hal Snyder wrote:
> bry@REDACTED writes:
> 
> > I'm in the preliminary sketching out of some 
> > stuff I want to work on in the near future, 
> > for this work I want to use mnesia, but I 
> > don't want to use erlang for all my code, so 
> > I want to interface to mnesia from a third 
> > language, unfortunately  (or fortunately 
> > from my point of view) this language doesn't 
> > have corba, and hell, come to think of it, I 
> > don't have corba, or more than a cursory 
> > acquaintence with idl! 
> 
> > so what I would like to do is to communicate 
> > via a port from language a to erlang and 
> > pass in tables to mnesia.
> 
> > is there anything like that in tutorial or 
> > implementation form already?
> 
> It depends on your app, the other languages, etc.
> 
> Have you looked at UBF? I would start there in many cases.
> http://www.sics.se/~joe/ubf/site/home.html
> 
> or you could look at erl_interface
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/r9c/lib/erl_interface-3.4/doc/html/index.html
> 
> or jinterface
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/r9c/lib/jinterface-1.2.1.1/doc/html/index.html
> 
> or yaws
> http://yaws.hyber.org/
> 
> or inets
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/r9c/lib/inets-3.0.6/doc/html/index.html
> 
> or unix pipe (Erlang port) - we do this to some SQL servers
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/r9c/lib/kernel-2.9/doc/html/erlang.html#open_port%2
> 
> maybe even SNMP
> http://www.drxyzzy.org/mnesia-snmp/index.html