"Stephen T. Pope" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The squeak list server is still rejecting my posts. This is for you and
> for the list; would you mind posting it while I try to get the list fixed?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> stp
> 
> Johan Fabry wrote:
> > [ ... stuff deleted ...]
> >
> > However (there has to be a 'however' :-)) CORBA (in my opinion) is no
> > fun. It is hard to learn (I teach some classes of our distributed
> > systems course, including the CORBA classes, and it is a repeating
> > pattern) and it is hard to use.
> 
> For our group, the point is that we're building a large heterogenous
> distributed system with several important services (real-time
> many-channel surround sound processors) written in C++ but driven from
> Smalltalk (not necessarily Squeak).
> 
> We need a fully CORBA-compliant client. Debating whether CORBA is good
> or bad is moot. It's there, and we're using the ACE/TAO infrastructure
> for load-balancing and object migration in a very performance-critical,
> high-bandwidth (hundreds of channels of sound), and
> high-compute-requirement (on the order of 20-40 output channels)
> real-time application. Unfortunately, the only real variable for us is
> whether we can use Squeak at all (or whether I have to port all of Siren
> to VisualWorksNC).
> 
> --
> 
> stp
>   Stephen Travis Pope
>   http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~stp

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