Brian Bray wrote:Interesting comments, I believe SOAP (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-box-http-soap-01.txt) provides a mechanism to bridge the separate worlds of HTML/HTTP and IIOP/CDR. RogueWave has a commercial solution Nouveau, which is a Orb solution and includes bridging capabilities to DCOM and XML. They call their XML bridge XORBA (http://www.roguewave.com/products/nouveau/xorbawp-ph.html). I also seems plausible that this kind of integration could take place between SMTP and IIOP as well, i.e. invoking services from email messages.
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> I really agree with this concern. Corba has a huge learning curve and
> some of it's component standards are much better than others (I curse
> the C++ bindings daily).If I was a CORBA vendor, this would be my biggest concern. HTML caught the
computer world by surprise and upset the apple cart for many a client/server
vendor. Could CORBA be in a similar predicament? I DO NOT want to start a
flame war. Not at all. But I am wondering if some interoperability standard
(perhaps using XML) is going to sneak up on the CORBA/DCOM/EJB world.
Describing this competitor, I'd say it probably won't be as sophisticated as
them, BUT it will be a lot simpler for legacy systems to implement.
Can we come up with a design that is above DCOM, CORBA or EJB so we can remain
neutral enough to easily migrate to a different strategy? The obvious problem
with this approach is it adds one more layer of complexity and performance drain
to the onion. The great advantage, in my eyes, is being able to rest easy that
the EMR would be better prepared to withstand a Standards earthquake.> While Corba doesn't have to be large and slow, some of the implementations are.
This benchmark shows there can be a WORLD of difference in the speed.
http://www.omex.ch/CorbaTB/corbatb.htm
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