COM/CORBA/DCOP (was: Hello people. I have some questions)

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On 31 Aug 2001, Paul Rubin wrote:

> I don't know anything about DCOP but my guess is that it's closer to
> COM than CORBA.  Most people considered CORBA too heavyweight for
> connecting desktop apps and were surprised that ORBit (the Gnome ORB)
> was able to get as good performance as it does.

The difference was that MICO (KDE's ORB) was written in C++, while ORBit is
written in C. ORBit has been tweaked and honed to death, whereas they could
only do so much for MICO.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio at openservices.net>