Re: [gnome-love] from omniorb to orbit

[Thomas Broyer <tbroyer ltgt net>]

Le 24/05/01 01:34:58, Matthew Walton a écrit :
> Is there by any chance a wonderful document somewhere that tells me 
> exactly what CORBA, ORBit, Bonobo and all these fantastically 
> exciting-sounding things actually are and what they can do for me as an 
> aspiring Gnome developer?

CORBA <http://www.omg.org> is more or less a protocol for RPCs. Servers
implement interfaces (described in IDL -- Interface Definition Language)
which clients can call methods of or get/set properties from/to.

ORBit is more or less a server implementing CORBA.

> I gather that Bonobo is some kind of component framework, [...] Is it 
> like (and apologies for mentioning this) some kind of hyper-pumped-up 
> OLE?

More like COM/DCOM

Tom.