Components for a client/server architecture

[John Nagle]

Duncan Grisby wrote:
> In article <f2stbp$lmg$1 at tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de>,
> Samuel  <newsgroups at debain.org> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>>Sounds like CORBA to me. CORBA has a very mature and good implementation
>>>for Python called OmniORB, and interoperability with other orbs (the
>>>ones available for e.g. Java) is very good - as CORBA as standard is
>>>mature.

     You don't hear much about CORBA any more.  It used to be derided
as a bulky way to marshall data, but then came XML.

     Gnome and OpenOffice both use CORBA internally.  But they don't
talk to each other that way; the implementations aren't compatible.

				John Nagle