> From: Alan Knight <knight at acm.org>
> [ cross language serialization ]
> It's not particularly difficult between Smalltalk and Java.
....
> The same thing can, and has been done for CORBA.

The same can and has been done for various distributed object and  
RPC protocols.
The same can and has been done for marshalling arguments when calling C.
The same can and has been done for marshalling arguments going to  
Objective-C.

Does the fact that it's easy to do mean that we have to keep on  
doing it over and over again?

(Isn't that the 'reverse vandalism' Alan mentioned?)

Marcel