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

[Paul Rubin]

Heiko Wundram <heikowu at ceosg.de> writes:
> 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.

I remember there was also something called KOM, which was KDE's version
of COM.  Is DCOP different from that?

Is it feasible to put a CORBA wrapper around DCOP, to use KDE apps on
a GNOME desktop?  What about the other way around?