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If you have Netscape Navigator 4 on your machine, then IIOP runs on your machine. -----Original Message----- From: owner-xml-dev@i... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of Dave Winer Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 5:02 AM To: xml-dev@i... Subject: RE: CORBA's not boring yet. / XML in an OS? >>Isn't RPC using IIOP and DCOM already slow enough without using XML? Why don't MS just support IIOP? I don't know why MS does anything, I don't work there. I know why I like XML-RPC. It's simple. You can write a client in a few hours, and a server in a couple of days. A JavaScript programmer can learn how to do it, today, in less than 24 hours, and in a few weeks, they'll be able to do it in minutes. I have some theories about why this is true: 1. HTTP is everywhere. Does IIOP run on my machine? I'm pretty sure it doesn't. And it's not just about Microsoft, I have Macs too. 2. XML looks like HTML. To someone who has mastered HTML the transition is easy. Performance matters, for sure. But sometimes people overlook that people performance is probably the single most important limiting factor. I can tell you this, CORBA wasn't designed for my mind. It's so complicated, so many new concepts to understand. I even had trouble understanding HTML way back when. Wire protocols can be optimized, but people's brains move at their own rate, rejecting things that appear too complicated, waiting for something that makes sense to them. We're all busy! The problem with COM, CORBA and Apple Events is that each of them were invented before the web exploded and are quite platform specific, and are not understandable to people who do web development. Dave xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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