I don't really care, but we were talking about mapping CORBA IDL to a
programming language, whatever it is. DBS is not a programming language
but a particular API for a certain function. This one cannot compare CORBA
IDL mapping to Mumps and DBS as the same type of thing. Earlier in this
thread it was stated why not look at CORBA to DBS rather than CORBA IDL to
MUMPS. My response is to that suggestion.
Thanks,
Dave
At 12:32 PM 1/19/00 -0800, Gregory J. Woodhouse wrote:
>DBS is one of the two APIs used to access Fileman databases (the other one
>now being known as Classic Fileman). It is written in MUMPS as is Classic
>Fileman. When non-MUMPS applications use it to access Fileman files the
>basic pattern is
>
>GUI application --> RPC Broker --> RPC options (server side) --> DBS
>--> Fileman files
>
>In other words, the server side code used to implement RPCs use the DBS
>API to access Fileman (query or update the database).
>
>I've obviously skipped a few infrastructure relaed steps here. RPC options
>are run by the server side compnent of the Broker which listens for TCP/IP
>connections, recerives the RPC request, runs the appropeiate option,
>marshals parameters and sents a response. (and here, I've still left out
>authentications, etc.)
>
>If you don't mind my asking, why do you care what language it is written
>in?
>
>---
>Gregory Woodhouse
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