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Hi, [JonathonBorden states:] > This isn't the problem with RPC systems at all (including CORBA, Java > RMI, DCOM, DCE-RPC etc), and certainly the current defacto web 'protocol' > namely a form and www-form-encoding or a CGI query string is hardly a > robust > way for programs to communicate. Rather, the ubiquity of firewalls allows > HTTP and SMTP traffic to flow where no RPC can go. > This seems a hard argument to make given that popular corba implementations which support firewalls via tunneling techniques have been around for a number of years, yet have not had much impact on corba's (lack of) popularity. The reason that http & friends have had the impact corba had hoped for has to do primarily with the fact that they're simple ("web-weasels" don't typically write CORBA servers); other reasons include ubiquity, performance and tools (emacs, vi, or notepad all work pretty well along with one of the many free, stable httpds available to anyone). [JonathonBorden states:] > That's exactly my point, there is no reason not to layer IDL on top of > perfectly good protocols such as HTTP and SMTP. There is no reason not to > use perfectly good standards such as MIME. > Certainly this can be done, but one has to wonder why one wants to do it. I've played extensively with manipulating DOM structures remotely via CORBA (see http://www.objdev.org/index.html for some details) and the bottom line is that the granularity of the DOM is inappropriate for significant use in a distributed system. You're better off in nearly all cases simply firing a stream of XML at whoever needs it. I think that one could happily integrate all sorts of wonderful XML-derived benefits into a CORBA environment by having both stream and remote invocation interfaces (I'm working on such a system now). However, "layering" CORBA on top of XML will prove to yield little of value except a reminder of how precious performance really is ;-> Regards, Tito. 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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