Fulvio Risso wrote:
>
> Hello Frank.
> On behalf of the WinPcap group, I would like to know if you can explain
> better you method.
> We would like to add a new way to handle dissectors to Analyzer, so we're
> looking to the best alternative.
> Honestly, we don't understand the advantages of IDL.
> Could you please explain why you choose to do so and its advantages?
> Please feel free to post the reply to the Ethereal mlists, if you wish.
Hi,
Ok, let me make a distinction here ....
I am not suggesting that ALL dissector should be described using
IDL. That is NOT the purpose of this release.
What this release is supporting, is that there are CORBA
traffic already out there that is well described using IDL (in fact
source code is generated from the IDL during development
of CORBA applications).
I believe that we might as well take the same IDL files and generate
an Ethereal dissector from it, so you can develop your app, and
also see how it looks on the wire, perhaps for CORBA interoperability
testing or teaching students about CORBA interworking, etc..
Hope that clears things up :-)
/Frank..
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