The Yoko ORB

Yoko is a CORBA 2.3 compliant ORB implementation to support interprocess communication. It is an open-source project maintained by IBM, forked from Apache Yoko.

Build Requirements

1. SDKMAN, to manage the toolchain, including installing Java, Gradle

Steps to build Yoko

1. From the root of the project, run sdkman env install to obtain the toolchain. (one-time step)
2. Run sdk env to initialise the environment.
3. Run gradle build to build and test Yoko.

Recommended steps to develop Yoko

(We recommend using Linux: YMMV on other platforms.)

1. Fork Yoko on Github
2. Clone your fork into a local git repository.
3. Setup the Python pre-commit framework:
   1. Install Python 3.6 or later
   2. Install pre-commit: pip install pre-commit
   3. Run pre-commit install to install the pre-commit framework and the hooks.
4. Create a new branch for your work.
5. Make your changes.
6. Run gradle build to build and test Yoko.
7. Commit your changes.
8. Push your changes to your fork.
9. Create a pull request to merge your changes into the main repository.

Testify

Testify is an open-source generic framework used for testing with Junit 5 across multiple threads and forked processes.

Docs

The documentation for Testify can be found at https://openliberty.github.io/yoko