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

[Cristian Tibirna]

tooper wrote:

> Just my 10 cent.s contrib...
> 
> It seems many solution exist to directly connect COM & CORBA world
> (Orbixweb for ex.)
> Morover, through various CORBA Python packages (Fnorb or PyOrbit for ex.),
> you may handle directly CORBA or COM objects in your Python app.
> I don't know how DCOP mix with Python  - not a Gnome purist & quite like
> KDE, but just don't know ;-)

Try
http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdebindings/dcoppython/

DCOP is simpler than CORBA (DCOP creators tried to implement the strictum 
necessary and not more) but is definitely very flexible.

It is possible to control KDE applications that implement a DCOP interface 
from about any kind of envir/technology you imagine. There *are* python 
bindings, as well as perl, C, java, but also you can use straight shell 
scripts. In a recent KDE (post version 1.1.2) try the dcop and kdcop 
commands.

Yes, CORBA/COM bindings are definitely possible. It only seems nobody 
needed some yet.

Thanks for your attention

P.S. I even heard rumor of including the DCOP python module in future 
python releases.

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