Has anyone implemented CORBA?
Andrew C. Greenberg
werdna at gate.net
Thu Mar 9 15:05:16 UTC 2000
At 8:56 AM -0500 3/9/2000, Stephan B. Wessels wrote:
>Because Squeak needs to interact and CORBA is a very good normalizer, in my
>opinion.
I don't disagree with any of Stephan's remarks concerning the utility
of Corba. Nor do I disagree that Corba would be a useful project
(for myself included). I was quibbling with the use of the word
"necessary," and asking why we should concern ourselves with the
scope of adoption of Squeak in prioritizing issues for its
development.
In short, I'm 100% behind these projects, but doubt that any one of
them is "necessary" for adoption of Squeak, or that "adoption of
Squeak" should necessarily drive our determinations upon which
projects to work. Let us focus on quality and depth of the things we
do well, and build projects that matter to us. In time, we will
build a product that may or may not be adopted by others, but will be
exceptionally useful to us.
The problem is not with the substance of the particular project, but
rather with ALL arguments of the form "this is NECESSARY for
ADOPTION." Indeed all or most desired features might become
priorities with this simple mantra -- I suggest that it is also a
danger that leads to creeping featuritis. In short, if an ORB is
necessary for you, that reason enough to build an ORB for Squeak, and
not because it is "necessary" to lead to wider "adoption."
If you would find an ORB useful, or are looking for a project to get
involved, by all means work on one. If not, there are many useful
tasks still to be accomplished.
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