Implementing a CCM Component

This document explains how to implement a single component. At this moment, CIAO lacks a CIDL compiler, and we depends on manually generating the servant glue code for containers and local executor interface. Check out this page to find how all files are generate4d in CIAO. The following figure shows how this is done:

And when we have a working CIDL (or, CCIDL "CIAO's Component Implementation Definition Language") compiler, the file will be generated using a CIDL file (which is rather simple.) This figure depicts the "Right Way" [TM] this should be done:

Checkout a list of things to do for implementing CIDL compiler.

I think it is debatable whether we should merge the "Servant DLL" and "Component Implementation DLL" into one DLL. Me think not. My approach, however, creates some complication on requireing a mechanism to locate the servant code (and DLL) from component implementation.

Libraries Dependencies

Implementing a component creates 3 DLL's as shown in the above figure. Both "Servant DLL" and "Component Implementation DLL" depend on the "Client DLL". "Servant DLL" and "Component Implementation DLL" are not mutually dependent, however. All the generated DLLs depends on other TAO and CIAO common libraries. Here's a break down of which libraries depends on which other libraries: