Re: [Evolution-hackers] Questions about Evolution mail/composer

[Joey Shen <joey shen sun com>]

Not Zed wrote:

> What exactly are you doing?
   I'm integrating Evo mail to Java code, say, launch the composer with 
some prefilled fields by calling some Java APIs. Currently I got the 
native code finished for 1.2 based on evolution-launch-composer. And I'm 
also thinking about to use IIOP to call the Evolution-Composer interface 
directly from Java code. That could avoid the using of native C code. 
And as I know Java ORB can interoperate with ORBit2 successfully. So if 
the methods which were used by that binary would no longer work for Evo 
1.4, I would have to change my way to have works done, that what I was 
worrying about.

> >    You mentioned some objects have been set as singleton, and should 
> > only be
> > instanced via factory last time on IRC. Would you please give more 
> > details on
> > that?
>
> Go read a book about oo.
>
> It means you can't have 2 copies of the mailer running at the same time,
> which is what will happen if you try to access the composer component
> from another process, since bonobo is piece of shit.
   Too bad to hear that, I don't wanna work on a piece of shit.....
   One more question: I think the composer is some kind of different 
from the mailer, since one can get two or more composers in the single 
mailer, it shouldn't be singleton. But we cannot seem to use 
bonobo_activation_activate_from_id(COMPOSER_OAFIID,....) to get the 
reference of composer. Is there any change of ways to activate object?
Thanks!
-JoeyS