Re: Bonobo Unique Application

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Gustavo,

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 16:58, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> Every app that uses this API has to queue an idle, or guarantee that the 
> "message" signal handler is reentrancy-safe with respect to all code that 
> ever makes a corba call, including in libraries the app uses. Since it is 
> impossible to guarantee this in any non-trivial app, every app needs to 
> queue an idle. Therefore I think it makes much more sense to have bonobo 
> do the idle and not every application.

	Alex is right; we need to queue the incoming message invocation until
idle; this is really hard to do without ORB support -> thus we need to
start using the support I added for this to ORBit2 in HEAD; see the
ORBitThreadHint in poa/orbit-adaptor.h; we need to be able to set the
POA on BonoboObjects as they are instantiated (via some internal to
BonoboObject POA selection magic) preferably with a helper API to re-use
eg. the AT_IDLE / ONEWAY_AT_IDLE methods. This would be _really_ useful
in eg. nautilus where they do a lot of work re-proxying stuff until
idle. I think we could also bin a chunk of code from evolution with
that. The POA should be per BonoboObject interface, not per AO (IMHO).

	So - having done that - I think we're in good shape for pushing this
API in ( we'd want an action GEP first though I think ).

	How does that sound ?

	Regards,

		Michael.

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