Re: [Simca-developers] Corba question

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On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 12:06:18AM -0700, Antoine van de Ven wrote:
> Oops, sent before I was finished. Again:
> 
> Hi, I have a question.
> At http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/coding-introduction.html#interfaces I
> read:
> 
> "In a CORBA environment, life is more restrictive and difficult, because you
> have inter-process and inter-network communication, something which Mozilla
> is not actively using. In a distributed CORBA environment, it is difficult
> to change the components of an interface, because you are usually unable to
> replace all running systems at the same time. If you want to change
> something, you have to define a new version of an interface, but you might
> still be required to support the old one."
> 
> Is this a problem for us?

I don't think that is a real problem for us as the simca interface that is exported through CORBA is very limited and no subject to heavy changes. 

> 
> I was also reading about Python and found something similar: Python with
> XPCOM
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-pyxp1
> 
> But I guess you are already far with CORBA etc so lets use that, but I like
> to know
> more about the choices that were made, also to be able to explain it better
> to others.

We're still just experimenting with CORBA. So if we find a way that seems to fit more in our needs we should have a look at it.


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