Exposing COM via XML-RPC or Something Else

[Samuel A. Falvo II]

>CORBA still seems to be more mature. The only reason to use COM is,
>if you want to interoperate with the Microsoftproduct world.

Nope.  COM is not Windows specific; ActiveX is.

What's more, COM is much, much easier to use than CORBA (I've used both),
much much easier to implement, and far easier to debug.  That is why COM is
so popular today.  (There are plenty of technologies that Microsoft
introduced but weren't adopted, even on Windows, despite their attempts to
strong-arm, so please don't give me this argument.)

>Why not stick with CORBA and SOAP, where needed? :)

Because CORBA is a major pain in the ass to use, and it's voraciously
resource hungry?

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Samuel A. Falvo II
Oceanside, CA