Re: Ditching CORBA, again?

[Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna total net>]

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Dan Kegel wrote:

> Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> > Hence, after long debating and argumentation, supported
> > with strong demonstration arguments, it was decided that for IPC/COM
> > inside the same computer, shared libs are much more appropriate.
> > 
> > Kanossa, which only replaces the old OpenParts (but lets untouched KOM)
> > does exactly this: implements shlibs for component embedding. The results
> > are already astonishing, as Kurt's article says.
> 
> This means that you can't embed remote components, which I assume
> was one of the things people wanted to do with CORBA.
> Correct?  Therefore, in a real way, CORBA is indeed being abandoned.

Would you care to tell me where you saw remote components embedded up to
date (be it windows, unix, mac or whatever) ? And if you read again Kurt's
report, KDE has full Java support already. Kurt specifically says that
Java will be available from inside any app. And Java has CORBA as one of
its central tools.

Anyways, for the moment for KDE it was difficult to get embedded
components working reliably even on local apps. Once this works perfectly
on local scope, we are sure that our CORBA specialists will find the
appropriate ways to publish components in networks.

> That said, I'm not absolutely opposed to ditching CORBA; I just want to
> clarify the situtation.

Situation? What situation? He who does the work decides.

Thanks

Cristian