Re: oaf async activation

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On 2 Oct 2000, Mathieu Lacage wrote:

> I am currently working on bugzilla.eazel.com #2131
> (http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2131)
> 
> Basically, the fact that activation is synchronous makes the UI
> completely dead pretty often which is a major pb. I am pretty sure
> Evolution people might feel concerned about this so, here is my
> proposal to add a few methods to OAF IDL and some new API.
>
> Flames wellcome. If no one raises his hand to bitch about how bad this
> design is, I will begin working to add this functionality to OAF
> winthin 2 days...

This is going to add some non-trivial overhead to the client, which now
would have to serve the callback object as well.

I do not think this makes long-term sense in OAF, especially if you are
just trying to get a tiny gain in GUI responsiveness during CORBA
operations...

-- Elliot
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