Re: Newbie: Asynchronous messaging in CORBA -- is it possible?

[Edgar Hilton <efhilton fsmlabs com>]

Thanks to all of you who have responded. I'll look into several of these
options.

-Edgar


On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 18:58, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> Hi Edgar,
> 
> On 30 Oct 2001, Edgar Hilton wrote:
> > Hi! I'm a newbie, so please be gentle.
> 
>         We're always gentle - compassion with a hard edge - to re-coin an
> oxymoron[1].
> 
> > The question is: how can I get the server to trigger some action in
> > select clients? For example, let's say that I am sitting at the server
> > machine, and want several of the clients to refresh a list of
> > parameters.  How can I do this?
> 
>         You need a CORBA impl. at both ends as Rodridgo says - so that you
> can pass messages back.
> 
>         Very often such notifications would be flagged 'oneway' - ie. the
> CORBA method will not (usualy) block, will not wait / allow an exception
> or value to be returned. Thus you can quickly fire and forget at all your
> clients - without having to wait if one died / blocked in the method.
> 
>         Of course, if you use ORBit2 you could use asynchronous method
> invocation, but they wouldn't in fact solve your problem.
> 
>         HTH,
> 
>                 Michael.
> 
> [1] - ARP Blair or JackBootStraw ?
> 
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