[Frank Singleton <frank.singleton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 

> 
> Could people please contribute a few paras on these topics and I will
> add them.

Hi,

I think it may be useful to add a blurb on idl2eth
and automatic code generation for CORBA IDL dissectors.

This could be under Misc/tools or similar.

If you take a look at README.idl2eth, you will find a reasonable
description of this tool. Also, please note that for the 0.8.19
release of ethereal, idl2eth generates "dissector code".

However, due to a reorg in the corba department, we have now
shifted to a "plugin" strategy in current CVS code. So , idl2eth 
can handle generation of plugin code now also. There exists he new 
"plugins/giop" dircetory for this. Also, this directory now
contains two (2) plugins that will heuristically
dissect Corba GIOP/IIOP Traffic defined by "CosNaming.idl" and
"CosEventComm.idl"


I have had some great feedback from people using this tool.

Perhaps there should be a similar Misc/tools part for 
"mergecap" and "text2pcap" as well.

Cheers / Frank.

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