CORBASIM

C++ framework for automatic generation of testing tools for CORBA-based applications. Or in other words, CORBASIM aims to be the SoapUI for CORBA-based applications.

CORBASIM has a code generator that generates CORBASIM plug-ins from IDL interfaces. These plug-ins may be used with the CORBASIM generic application (corbasim_app).

GitHub mirror for https://code.google.com/p/corbasim/

Example

Generate a plug-in from your CORBA interfaces.

module Test
{
    struct Date
    {
        long year;
        long month;
        long day;
    };

    struct Time
    {
        long hours;
        long minutes;
        float seconds;
    };

    interface Example
    {
        void sayHello(in string to);
        void setDateTime(in Date date, in Time time);
    };
};

$ corbasim_make -n test_plugin test.idl
$ cmake .
$ make

Given the example and the steps above, corbasim will generate two libraries:

• libtest_plugin_idl.so - Common code for all interfaces defined in test.idl.
• libcorbasim_reflective_Test_Example.so - Actual corbasim plug-in for Test::Example interface.

Launch corbasim_app loading your plug-ins:

$ corbasim_app -d /path/to/your/plug-ins/directory

Compilation and installation

Requeriments:

• JRE
• C++ compiler. Tested with GCC and Clang
• Boost C++ Libraries
• Qt4 or Qt5, components: Widgets, Script, ScriptTools.
• A CORBA ORB implementation in C++. Widely tested with ACE TAO

Steps to compile and install:

$ cp corbasim.cfg.base corbasim.cfg
$ vim corbasim.cfg
$ ./configure -c corbasim.cfg
$ cd build && make && make install

ORB support

CORBASIM has been developed with TAO (The ACE ORB) and tested with serveral of its versions. However, it could be used with some other ORB implementations in C++.