Re: Object activation framework (was: Using gnome components with Python)

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jason Stokes wrote:

> > Nope, that is the purpose of bonobo. Gnorba was the old object
> > activation framework.  You use it to obtained a object of the type you
> > are looking for.  It is being replaced by OAF (Object Activation
> > Framework) which has more complicated querying for objects.  You can
> > look for objects by name, interface type etc.
> 
> Sorry, I'm still hung up on some conceptual issues.  What's the
> relationship between the Naming service (implemented with the CosNaming
> module) and the Object Activation Framework?  They seem like two
> different services that address the same sort of task.

The naming service and OAF are not at all related (besides the fact that
oafd happens to implement CosNaming objects as well as the OAF objects),
and the naming service is just a DNS for CORBA objects, nothing to do with
object activation.

-- Elliot
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