Re: Just my 0.02$ on sound and stuff... (CORBA)

[Jason Gilbert <jason scott net>]

Florian Hars wrote:
> 
> FYI: Some people are working on distributed real-time CORBA with things
> like audio and video streaming, the licence is essentialy "do what you
> want, but don't make the source non-free":
> 
>   http://siesta.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html

However, TAO, the ORB based on ACE, includes pieces of code derived from
some Sun code and has some kind of weird Sun license attached to it.  I
realize this sort of strays from the original topic but, the Real-time
CORBA Event Service looks pretty interesting.  It's described in a
paper, "The Design and Performance of a Real-time CORBA Event Service" -
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/corba-research-realtime.html

I don't know if our requirements for an Event Service are quite
Real-time, but it couldn't hurt.  The design is very modular so we don't
necessarily have to go all the way.  If anyone would like to discuss the
Event Service (or GnomeEventManager or whatever it's to be called) send
followups to the gnome-component-list.

jason

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