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Re: Market for an IDL to Java Translator? [message #55054]

Tue, 31 July 2007 03:55

mattf
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On Jul 30, 3:11 pm, CyclingGuy <ericdav...@netzero.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to gauge the need for an IDL to Java Translator.
>
> My proposed translator would take IDL source code and produce Java
> Source code. Initially (at least), it would be limited to IDL code
> that contained no GUI widgets and made no calls to shared libraries.
>
> My thought is to offer the translator as a service rather than a
> product. A customer would upload their code to a web site, and get
> back a trial jar file (a java executable that would run for a limited
> period of time) in return. If they were satisfied with the execution
> of the jar file (correctness and speed), they would be able to
> purchase the generated Java source code.
>
> My questions are (to those that would be interested in such a
> service):
> 1) How many lines of code do you have that you would be interested in
> converting to Java?
> 2) Would you be interested in this service if it was offered if it
> was offered at a price of $0.10/line of code?
> 3) ... at a price of $0.05/line of code?
> 4) ... at a price of $0.02/line of code?
> 5) ... at a price of $0.01/line of code?
> 6) Would you be more interested in an IDL to C translator?
>
> Thank you,
> Eric.

I have a feeling that the intersection of the set of professional IDL
users and professional Java users is pretty small, so there would be a
strong global constraint on the size of the market... FWIW, I'd guess
that the intersections between IDL and Fortran, or IDL and C/C++, or
even IDL and Python would be bigger.

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