Could an equivalent strategy be used *within* Squeak, with a CORBA layer
defined for communications outside of Squeak? Seems to me that a Distributed
Squeak should be possible if it already isn't done somewhere.

on 10/18/00 11:32 AM, Aaron J Reichow at reic0024 at d.umn.edu wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Lawson English wrote:
> 
>> I'm not even remotely a CORBA-compliant programmer, so take what I say with
>> a few tons of salt, but my recollection is that Apple's Cocoa framework
>> provides interoperability with CORBA without needing to learn CORBA. How is
>> this done? Couldn't Squeak provide the same kinds of services?
> 
> Cocoa/OpenStep have a distributed object system as a part of the API,
> although one which isn't CORBA-compliant (and doesn't try to be). Perhaps
> you're mixing up the too.  They communicate via Mach messages, IIRC.
> 
> ...but I may be wrong.  If there is a CORBA layer, my guess is that it
> just wraps the existing DO layer around CORBA.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 

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