Hi, On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:21:40AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > If you don't use CORBA, then you will need something else to replace > this layer and support multiple languages, byte swapping, etc (even if > it is done internally in the application itself), these tasks are out of > the scope of the Unix IPC system. Of course, and it would be great if we'd have a good presentation layer above Unix IPC for transfering messages composed of lists or trees of attribute/value pairs. XML tries, but is /much/ to verbose IMHO. But CORBA is much more than that, it's an OO RPC protocol. I have a fundamental problem with RPC, because it makes you focus on the functions (operations) rather than the data that is being transfered and the state machines at each end. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | emile@e-advies.info tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.e-advies.info
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