Re: Reuse of Bonoboo IDLs

[Nat Friedman <nat helixcode com>]

bulkmail@dds.nl writes:
 > I'd consider the Unknown interface a abstract base class

    Except it's not abstract in Bonobo.

 >  -- apart from ref
 > counting there's not so much interesting you can do with it. 

    Query_interface is a pretty big deal.

 > So I'd say you
 > define you interface, and have it derive from Unknown. 

    Yep, that's what we do all over Bonobo.

 > Note that Bonobo also offers default implementations of these interfaces.
 > While it's trivial to re-implement Unknown, the Persistance stuff will be a
 > bit harder (take a look at the libefs dir in the Bonobo distribution).

    Yeah, you can reimplement them.  Of course, the reason we
implemented them was so that you wouldn't have to.

Nat