As explained in Section 1.2, CORBA is used for all communications inside the platform. The implementations of CORBA currently supported in DIET is omniORB 4 which itself depends on Python.
NB: We have noticed that some problems occur with Python 2.3: the C++ code generated by idl could not be compiled. It has been patched in DIET, but some warnings may still appear.
omniORB 4 itself also depends on OpenSSL in case you wish to secure your DIET platform. If you want to deploy a secure DIET platform, SSL support is not yet implemented in DIET, but an easy way to do so is to deploy DIET over a VPN.
In order to deploy CORBA services with omniORB, a configuration file and a log
directory are required: see Section 10.1.1 for a complete
description of the services. Their paths can be given to omniORB either at
runtime (through the well-known environment variables
$OMNIORB_CONFIG and $OMNINAMES_LOGDIR), and/or at omniORB
compile time (with the
-with-omniORB-config and
-with-omniNames-logdir options.) Some examples provided in the DIET
sources depend on the BLAS and ScaLAPACK libraries. However the compilation
of those BLAS and ScaLAPACK dependent examples are optional.