Re: Scripting in Gnome

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

jamie wrote:...

> Because Bonobo is equivalent in functionality to COM, I was kinda hoping
> a future version of Bonobo would be independent of corba or whatever
> underlying mechanism is used so you could use whatever system works best
> (obviously everyone will use the fastest and most efficient method
> whilst keeping Corba for backwards compatibility). I think there's an
> overwhelming case for replacing corba IDL with XML in bonobo if thats
> done (XSLT for automatic language bindings would be very handy).
No no no please; the IDL should be the 'normative' definition for 
interfaces.  That's what it was invented for; the fact that we are using 
"CORBA IDL" is less significant than the fact we're using IDL.  The IDL 
can be compiled to various backends, it doesn't have to be compiled to 
CORBA stubs/skels.

If you want to replace bonobo's backend, that's fine provided you 
preserve the advantages of CORBA (network transparency, 
language-neutrality, ability to connect to other runtimes like Java VMs 
and Windows).  What would really suck would be replacing the interface 
definition language, since that would break all the code that currently 
relies on the bonobo techniques generally (i.e. all existing bonobo 
services and interfaces that aren't part of libbonobo/libbonoboui).

- Bill


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