Eran, IMHO, a daemon may be is necessary to manage the incoming server requests and handling of the delta pings. I recall the term "oxid resolver", but its been a number of years since I seriously dealt with the DCOM wire protocol.
That port to Unix was done in Germany and included the mind of Don Box to oversee the operation - or so I recall. He wrote a excellent book on DCOM that covers details on the wire protocol itself... "Essential COM". I know some of the internals (thanks to Don's DCOM course), so I may be able to help a bit. As for marshalling, is there any need to support custom marshallers? If yes, that could require a fair *bit* of work. However, if its just the basics and only a standard marshaller is required it would certainly narrow the scope. Given the large development community of Visual Basic, I wouldn't be surprised if the standard marshaller is all that would be required. Hope that helps, Darren ---------------------------------------------------- Subject: RE: [Mono-list] COM / DCOM in Mono Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:10:43 +0200 From: "Eran Sandler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, Well, I'm currently investigating how implement DCOM on other systems. I know it WAS implemented for UN*X and Linux by 3rd party companies but they didn't release the code. Working with DCOM shouldn't be that hard since I only need a proxy alive and a way to marshal data to it (at first it can be other proxies or simple data types. It might give us what we want. Although I have a question.=20 I will try to implement DCOM in C or C++ (I haven't decided yet), I persume I need to use some form of Platform Invoke to call this code, right? Can you point me out to a place where P/Invoke was used so I can check it out a bit? Eran _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
