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From: Erhan Aksoy <eza40@amail.amdahl.com>
Subject: C/C++ talking to Smalltalk
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We have an 'object request broker' developed in house with distributed
Smalltalk feature available from IBM's Visual Age/Smalltalk 3.0. (I am
not a Smalltalk expert, I am just passing on what I was told). The
clients, which are requesting the services of ORB are also written in
Smalltalk.

My task is to find out a way to emulate a 'Smalltalk client' this time
written in C/C++. The generic 'C/C++ client' will look like just another
client to the ORB server. Is it possible to get C/C++ DLLs talk to
Smalltalk, and if so how complicated it is?

Thanks,


Erhan
