Chris Withers wrote:
>
> Tres Seaver wrote:
> > > who's the CTO?
> >
> > Jim is.
>
> Okay, I get the joke now :-)
>
> > * "persistent" references are effectively required to be immortal:
> > it is _mandated_ that one be able to stringify the IOR, copy it
> >to a piece of paper, put the
Tres Seaver wrote:
> > who's the CTO?
>
> Jim is.
Okay, I get the joke now :-)
> * "persistent" references are effectively required to be immortal:
> it is _mandated_ that one be able to stringify the IOR, copy it
>to a piece of paper, put the paper in a bottle, and cast it on
>the
Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Evan Simpson wrote:
> > There are generally two ways (at least) to think about "object
> > identifiers". You can think of them as unique labels for
> > specific objects, without regard for location ("Jim Fulton")
>
> Me too...
>
> > or as addresses or slot
- Original Message -
From: Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> who's the CTO?
Jim Fulton, Chief Technology Officer.
> > use paths instead of object monikers.
>
> Why not do both?
>
> Have an POID (CORBA style) to actually identify an object and then use
> paths of POIDS to identify stuff
Michel Pelletier wrote:
> At the moment this is true, but Jim and I have discussed the possibility
> of ZCatalog being treating the paths less atomically and more as a
> sequence of nodes from root to the target, this way, you could ask the
> catalog for all objects below a certain point that matc
Evan Simpson wrote:
>
>
> In the case of Catalogs, much of the time we're probably not interested in
> cataloging "whatever lives at this path address";
At the moment this is true, but Jim and I have discussed the possibility
of ZCatalog being treating the paths less atomically and more as a
s
Evan Simpson wrote:
> There are generally two ways (at least) to think about "object identifiers".
> You can think of them as unique labels for specific objects, without regard
> for location ("Jim Fulton")
Me too...
> or as addresses or slots in which objects can be
> found ("the CTO").
who'
- Original Message -
From: Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I agree the path from root to an object, with no aquisition, is unique,
> but only per instance of zope...
> I was thinking along the lines of a CORBA POID which, AFAIK, uniquely
> identifies an object on a global scale. Could
