Re: Serious Bonobo Problem for Sun

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

Colm Smyth wrote:

> 1. middleware notifies server of client death; this is the best solution
>    as it is transparent and operates at the a common low level; since the
>    middleware is CORBA which (I believe) has no standard that supports
>    client death notification, this can't be used.

Yes, this is not supported.

> 2. server pings clients; since a client normally invokes a server, this
>    is a slightly unusual situation but bi-directional communication is
>    supported by recent GIOP standard; technically possible, but it
>    complicates the architecture by requiring clients to export a
>    CORBA interface so not to be recommended; if this mechanism were
>    chosen, it would be best if the Client::ping() interface were
>    asynchronous.

The server does not know it's clients, and a client can pass server object
references to other clients. I think this will never work.

- Dietmar