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

[Heiko Wundram]

Bruce Sass wrote on Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:02:54 -0600 (MDT):

> Another faction (KDE) has DCOP.  They started out using CORBA, iirc,
> but then went their own way.  Is DCOP even fancier than CORBA, or
> are they just being different?.  Is it possible to get COM, CORBA, and
> DCOP to talk to each other?

Hmm... I dunno whether you can get them to talk to each other, but about 
DCOP:

It is basically an RPC-interface that is directly bound to KDE's class 
structure, and which is also quite "simplistic", unlike Corba, etc. What 
the KDE people said was that they wouldn't need all the features Corba had 
to offer, and so they chose for something that would be simpler to 
implement, and out came DCOP.

Just my 2 cents contribution on this topic. ;)

Heiko W.