Re: bonobo activation question

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 19:14, Bill Haneman wrote:
> 
> > The feature has always been dead for Gnome 2.0, it's a Gnome 2.2 feature
> > if you want it.
> > 
> > >   We actually do rely on the ability to do this
> > > ("theoretically") via bonobo-activation, in our roadmap for
> > > accessibility support.
> > 
> > 	Fine; whatever - you can make it work then; however - the code that
> > currently exists to try and do it, is buggy, leaks, creates nasty race
> > conditions, dramaticaly complicates things, I've never seen it work etc.
> > etc. ;-)
> > 
> > 	So - I'm working to expunge that evil cruft from my life.
> 
> OK, well I did say "theoretically".  It's the activation part that's
> tricky, agreed, not the use of IORs once gotten.
> 
just to throw some ideas to the discussion, I think there is a chance to
do it very easily, simply by creating a b-a-s daemon which listens to
some well known port and gets queries from b-a-s clients requiring a
remote object, and just send back the IOR of those objects after having
activated them.

Correct me if I'm wrong please, but I really think this is an easy way
of solving this problem and really give a meaning to the N in GNOME :-)
I know it's not the best solution, but as we're having a lot of daemons,
why not have another one?

cheers