Re: Q: control-center and CORBA

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> What is the advantage of using CORBA in programs like the
> control-center?

Originall the control center was going to use shared libraries and a
new way control-center specific way of comunicating with their control
applets.  

Since CORBA is pretty good at communicating things and our particular
implementation of CORBA (ORBit) is so thin, we can afford to use CORBA
every time we want to communicate things and provide APIs.  Using
ORBit means that we dont have to reinvent a communication protocol
every time one is required.

Now, an added advantage of using CORBA for the control center is that
you are not limited to run capplets that have been launched by the
control-center, a running application can send capplets to the
control-center to let the user manipulate the information.  For
example, if you have Netscape running Netscape can send a capplet to
edit the Netscape properties on the control-center. 

Miguel.