Re: rms contact

[David Martínez Oliveira <dmartin tsc uvigo es>]

At 13:12 28/06/98 -0400, Frederick I Gleef wrote:
>
>On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Elliot Lee wrote:
>> 
>> What is EDMA?
>
>EDMA is a component object model system that Mr. Oliveira has been working
>on for a while.  It has a webpage (in Spanish only), I don't recall the
>URL, but it is in the archives of gnome-components-list (just search for
>EDMA).
>

The URL is http://wgpi.tsc.uvigo.es/~dyc/EDMASite. I hope to bring up a
english version soon. I will inform the mailist if you want

>In discussions between Mr. Oliveira and RMS, RMS suggested that since EDMA
>was free component software, that it might be a good idea to work with us.
>In discussions between Mr. Oliveira and I (on this list), I suggested
>that in order for EDMA to work well with GNOME, it would have to talk
>CORBA, probably using DII.  I don't know how implementation-specific DII
>is, but it would definitely need to know how to talk to ORBit, and
>possibly Mico as well.
>
Any comment or suggestion about this topic will be wellcomed. I am a novice
on CORBA, so maybe will be a more easy form for doing this.
>
>The way I see it, if he can pull off an EDMA-CORBA bridge, that will give
>programmers another option that will stay within the GNOME/CORBA specs.
>Looking at EDMA, it seems best suited for a single complicated application
>that needs various elements interacting.  It may offer advantages over
>straight CORBA for certain developers, and it certainly won't detract from
>CORBA for the rest of us.
>
EDMA wasn't designed for substitute any technology. It was designed for
working with the most of the avaliable systems in order to reuse them. I
think that it will offer some advantages on developing applications, and
then, it will be usefull in the GNOME project.

I am very gratefull for interesting about EDMA system. Thanks everybody.

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