IPC and SRP...

btanksley at hifn.com btanksley at hifn.com
Mon Aug 28 15:44:14 UTC 2000


From: Johan Fabry [mailto:johan.fabry at vub.ac.be]
>"Göran Hultgren" wrote:

>I've been following this discussion, since I'm working on something
>similar myself. My aim is also to get different VM's to 
>communicate on a
>somewhat higher level than having to code with sockets, however instead
>of IPC, I am working with different computers. But since I've noticed
>that you concluded you would have to use sockets, my system could be of
>some use to you.

>BTW, CORBA 1 and 2 have no serialisation, except for basic types (ints,
>strings, ...) and datastructures you can define in IDL (structs, enums,
>...). If I remember correctly, serialisation *is* planned for CORBA 3

It's finished, well-defined, and implemented in a number of places.  If I
were you I would work hard to support it; there's no reason I can see to
reinvent the wheel.

-Billy





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