> IMHO choosing an API-based solution (which will still allow IIOP to be
> used!) is more "future-compliant" than choosing a wire-protocol, which
> is "easier" but dumber.
>
> To compare with email, the basic text email (~IIOP) has worked fine for
> a long time and still does, but we would have been extremely frustrated
> if the email inventors had not designed it with "future-compliance" in
> mind and introduced MIME-based attachments that can do video and voice
> messages (for example).
But MIME is not an API, it is a protocol.
tim.
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