Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:02:20 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: Tim Oneil <toneil@visigenic.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows95: what you don't know, you must reinvent Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.970220175828.21225A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970220110052.0096a860@visigenic.com>
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On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Tim Oneil wrote: > At 11:26 AM 2/20/97 -0700, you wrote: > >I'm willing to write the COM model support code for FreeBSD. I might > >even be willing to write a Registry (or LDAP directory) for class > >identification, agregation, and configuration. > > You can write it Terry, but does that mean we have to use it?? Kidding > aside though, have you taken a look at corba? I mean, is it the microsft > way or noway already?? > If so, its just another fine standard mowed over by the ms jaggernaut. CORBA seems really cool. The problem right now is the cost of the IDL compilers. I've been trying to do some CORBA stuff in Java, and there are no free IDL compilers in the public domain as far as I can see. Java might well be the best method of supporting CORBA on FreeBSD - especially when all the neato thread-reentrant stuff is completed in 3.0/CURRENT. We should have a really nice java implementation. The kaffe JIT is quite fast as well; it will be interesting to see how well Java on FreeBSD will perform when all is said and done.. And yeah, DCOM just seems like a shitty CORBA to me - mowed over by the M$ jaggernaut indeed... Man why can't they use stuff that they didn't "invent" (and I use that term loosely) -Mark > > -Tim > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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