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RE: Fresco
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Mondragon, Ian |
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RE: Fresco |
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Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:21:33 -0500 |
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- ian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: giesler@ira.uka.de [SMTP:giesler@ira.uka.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 11:06 AM
> To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Fresco
>
> On Wednesday 16 April 2003 16:56, Björn Gohla wrote:
> > On 2003-04-16 09:53, Björn Giesler wrote:
> > > while; when I started out, I wanted to eventually write a
> > > NSCORBAConnection. Right now, I don't think that is possible while
> > > still retaining our standard DO semantics.
> > could you explain, why you think it would be hard to do? anyway, having
> > corba connectivity with semantics as similar as possible to those of do
> > would still be quite useful.
>
> I don't think that a CORBA-ObjC mapping wouldn't be too hard. CORBA has
> the
> issue of the formal specification in IDL, though, which is OK if you need
> formal specification anyway (C++) but isn't if you don't or already have
> it some other way (ObjC, Protocols). So there would have to be an
> IDL<->ObjC header file converter.
>
> The other, bigger can of worms is the ORB's run loop and event model,
> which
> is rather incompatible to OpenStep's and not specified down to the last
> iota: Some Orbs spawn a new thread for each incoming request, some don't,
> some have that configurable, some don't. With a multithreaded Orb, the
> entire of GNUstep must be thread-safe, etc.
>
> OK, on thinking about it again, I revise my opinion. I think it is doable,
>
> but it's very hard.
>
> Regards,
> --Björn
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