Re: [gnome-love] Writing cross-language interfaces

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 07:17, Caleb Land wrote:
> Hello,
> As you can tell from my first email I am lusting for knowledge, so,
> before I got out of hand, I decided that I would save the last question
> for another email.
>
> I read of the benefits of writing COM interfaces to libraries (IE
> allowing Perl users to access the MS XML parser).  I am currently
> writing a library to interface ebay functions (getting a list of
> auctions, checking for a user's completed auctions etc), and am
> beginning to think that it might be beneficial to allow other languages
> to easily interface with it.  I believe that CORBA would work for this,
> but I'm wondering if Bonobo contains anything to help standardize these
> interfaces and or make it easier.
yes, Bonobo has a lot stuff that could help you in doing this. It's got
some standard interfaces, and allows you to easily implement your own
interfaces.

cheers
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