Thanks everyone for the responses... Really nice to know all this - got some good info. I've downloaded avalon and plan to start tinkering with it tomorrow. My only worry was about if it was "low-level" enough to handle system level activities and also modular so that i could have the nice abstraction/encapsulation that stuff like ejb provides.
Regards, Vinod. On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:51:52 +0200, Stephen McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 10 August 2004 15:38 > > To: Avalon framework users > > Subject: Re: TCP Server > > > > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 20:17, Vinod Panicker wrote: > > > > > I've shortlisted CORBA and Avalon. Wanted to know if others have > > > experience with building such servers using Avalon and how well it > > > fares. > > > > The Jabber server implementation called OpenIM is based on Avalon > Merlin. > > Probably can't get closer than that. > > > > Corba and Avalon differs a lot. Corba is more oriented towards > > 'applications' > > that exposes services over a network, and Avalon is at 'in-process' > > components exposes services to peers. > > > > IMHO, you are probably better off with Merlin than Corba (Stephen is a > big > > Corba-fan, but I think he will concur on this ). > > > Stephen concurs. > > :-) > > Basically CORBA is a couple of levels higher - its good for managing > remotely accessible services, value-types, and the back-end machinery > for service activation. In fact Avalon is used as the component model > in the OpenORB project and I've also used Merlin as the management > platform for deployment of CORBA services (for both reference and value > based applications). > > Steve. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
