Re: ORBit status?

[John Kodis <kodis jagunet com>]

On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 10:08:28PM +0100, David Wragg wrote:

> - Support for asynchronous object requests, i.e. the out parameters
> and return value of a method call get passed to the client using a
> callback. Anyone who's seen graphical programs freeze while they use
> the Unix DNS interface will appreciate why this is useful. Threading
> is in many ways the preferred approach, but an event-based approach
> can fit more cleanly into existing single-threaded programs.

This sounds something like the Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) stuff
proposed for CORBA v3.

-- John Kodis.