On 18 Sep 2018, at 16:48, Sandor Szatmari <admin.szatmari....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Alistair! > > Anyone else have additional info?
Well, Cocoa has Distributed Objects, which you could use for this purpose. DO has some interesting behaviour (in particular, watch out - it can throw exceptions, even when calling methods that don’t normally do so), but it does let you send messages to objects fairly easily over a network. There’s also Sun RPC (which uses the rpcgen tool, which you can find documented here: <https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/816-1435/rpcgenpguide-24243/index.html>). Both of those are built-in to the macOS. There are other options too, but they’ll be more work; for instance CORBA, DCE RPC (or indeed DCOM, which is based on it), SOAP, XML-RPC, or a Restful HTTP(S) interface. Or, indeed, a custom TCP-based server. Exactly what you use depends on what’s best for your use case, which you don’t describe. In particular, cross-platform support is a major driver here; if you use DO, you probably won’t find it easy to talk to Windows or Linux machines if you ever need to in the future, and while Sun RPC is easy on most UNIX systems, Windows uses DCE RPC. CORBA is probably only of interest if you’re trying to talk to some enterprise system already built with it. SOAP, XML-RPC and Restful HTTP(S) are fairly general purpose and might be good choices if you ever wanted to talk to a server built with (say) Python or Ruby. Anyway... Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
