Re: currency quep intial - Re:currency quep

Posted by Joel Nelson-3 on Jan 04, 2002; 7:47am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/currency-quep-tp1814p1819.html

> So much that I remember a crazy discussion with Luigi and Enrico about
> a QuantLib-CORBA experiment aimed at exposing the whole QuantLib C++
> to CORBA.
> While that experiment would be really crazy I think that we can set up
> a QuantLib-CORBA repository. To have a QuantLib based CORBA layer that
> implements the full currency module and maybe also an experimental
> TermStructure interface would be a GREAT achievement, something that
> would really boost our project.


is there some demand out there for using QuantLib via CORBA?  i'm just
trying to get an idea of the general interest in this endeavor.
 personally i would be more interested to wrap with a SOAP interface at
the moment.  i have had bad luck using CORBA for anything outside of
in-house experimentation.  we never could get the clients to agree to
buy the ORB (the right version anyway) that we wanted them to use and
they didn't like TAO for some reason.

i have been in enough meetings at different banks indicating that SOAP
is the "strategic direction" in which they are heading for distributed
systems.  i have come away with the distinct impression that they are
trying to move away from CORBA.  i would be curious to know what
everyone else thinks.

i agree that wrapping all of QuantLib with some kind of SOAP or CORBA
interface would be a real boost to the project.  myself, for example, i
plan eventually to be using QuantLib from a java front end (either
application <-> servlet <-> quantlib or application <-> quantlib).
 either way it's a gain.  they both beat JNI for using C++ code from java.

ta,

joel