On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 02:33:30PM -0600, Swapan Sarkar wrote:
> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:41:27 +0530
> From: "Vinubalaji.G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [LI] orbit
>
> hi,
> What is the use of corba in linux,when u have
> everything in a system and in the same language
> itself.The Gnome environment has most of its
> application and components using corba.Can
> somebody focus some light on this.
The multi language thing is not very useful - most code anyway
gets written in C/C++. However there are people who want
to use lisp/guile/python/perl etc. It makes those people happy.
The point of the component architecture really is modularization
and code reuse. In other words, you don't have to relink your
app when you modify code. Also the app doesn't need to know
what it is linking with till runtime.
The flaw with CORBA is, it doesn't support in process (dlopen
type) componentization, which is required in a GUI environment.
COM/XPCOM/KOM do this.
-Arun
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