+1! Super +1! Death to RMI and CORBA! Gut em’!
Cheers, Chris On 7/15/10 8:06 AM, "Sean Kelly" <[email protected]> wrote: In order to get OODT-16 (OODT website) done, I'm having to get all the code in working order as well, since Maven generates the website and won't proceed if it can't get past compilation or tests. That's taking quite a bit of time since there are thousands of minuscule i's to dot and t's to cross. But I'm making progress. However, in doing so, I see a lot of ancient history that, to me, seems silly to keep supporting. Yeah, you see 'em, lurking the corner. They know their days are numbered. RMI and CORBA. RMI was fun while it lasted. The RMI registry was a pain in the butt, sure, and it was Java-only, but we were our own customers back then so that was OK. CORBA ... oh don't get me started on the ultra FAIL that was CORBA. I would not let my ugliest, smelliest dog even sit on CORBA. None of the current OODT customers use either RMI or CORBA. They've all moved to HTTP. Yet we still have lots of cruft to support both in the OODT code. It means more headache, more potential for error, and less efficiency for both the software and the developers stuck with it. Are these interfaces we want to keep alive? Will future OODT adopters actually use them? My feeling is "no". We've got HTTP which is ≫ (RMI + CORBA). -SK ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
