Re: getting started

[Tom Tromey <tromey creche cygnus com>]

I LIKE it.  I HATE it.  I LIKE it.  I HATE it.  I LIKE it.
I HATE it.  I LIKE..  EMOTIONS are SWEEPING over me!!
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Date: 27 Aug 1998 00:38:04 -0600
In-Reply-To: Miguel de Icaza's message of Wed, 26 Aug 1998 13:25:35 -0500
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Miguel> CORBA in the gnome desktop will be used in a couple of places:

Miguel> - Automation facilities: You export the API to your
Miguel> application and let other application remotely invoke your
Miguel> application to request services.

My interest here isn't in exporting an application's capabilities via
CORBA, but instead defining some standard service interfaces which
applications can implement.

If we design our services to be generic, then the implementations will
(hopefully) be interchangeable.  If we design our services by
exporting the capability of an existing application, then we are
(potentially) limited to a single implementation.

I think this is an important distinction.

Tom