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Hi, In our quest to find usable way to interface module with DOM interface, here is what we found: On the Linux platform, The project having the probability to have a certain success is OrBit (From Red Hat Labs). The project has enough fundings and actually progressing quite well. Also, the advantage is that the whole GTK+ project is based on CORBA objects implemented with OrBit IDL compiler and have therefore the same binary interface. If GNOME has momentum on the Linux platform we can say that OrBit will the the middleware of choice on Linux. Thus, we found that a C++ implementation that would work on the Linux platform could be implemented from Orbit generated code. Also, if Mozilla XPCOM get up to speed, the other alternative is XPCOM. XPCOM is very similar to DCOM and can with minimum amount of work be derived from COM objects. The modifications being the C function to add to the project to get the class factory. Everything else is the same and therefore it is not expensive to support both XPCOM and COM. XPCOM could be very interesting for OS2 platform support. What now remains is the Mac platform. Does any people with Mac knowledge could help? Conclusion: On Linux, A Orbit CORBA based implementation has more chance to work with other modules because Orbit is the foundation for GTK+ itself the GNOME glue. All Orbit modules have the same binary signature and can communicate together with very low overhead (near function call speed). On Windows a COM/XPCOM interface with also a common binary signature for the DOM interface. Regards Didier PH Martin mailto:martind@n... http://www.netfolder.com 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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