In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > >I have worked with Bonobo (an implementation of CORBA) before, though not >on the network - it is fairly complex. But I did not think of using it >for this purpose, it might actually make sense. I'll have to look into >the transport protocol more. To be clear, Bonobo is not an implementation of CORBA. It is a (somewhat byzantine) implementation of a component model on top of CORBA. CORBA certainly has some complex corners, but for many of the most common application requirements it is pretty simple, and buys you a lot in terms of cross-platform compatibility and clarity of interfaces. Cheers, Duncan. -- -- Duncan Grisby -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- http://www.grisby.org -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
