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Re: D-BUS replaces Bonobo?
by Richard Dale on Thursday 23/Sep/2004, @16:23

I had a conversation with you at aKademy where you said you had reservations about the serialisation that DBUS used, and I couldn't quite understand what you thought the problem was. But it sounds to me as though you're more enthusistiac about DBUS than you were then. I agree that CORBA is a complete dog, but perhaps using IIOP might not be a bad idea as a transport layer, which java RMI also uses I believe. Does anyone know what the pros and cons were of choosing the marshalling used by DBUS over IIOP, or DCOP's QDataStream stuff?

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Re: D-BUS replaces Bonobo?
by Anonymous Coward on Friday 24/Sep/2004, @07:02

The main problem with this is that IIOP is primarily designed for *networked* procedure calls, while the primary use case for DCOP/DBUS is IPC between processes running on the *same machine*.

Using a fundamentally network-oriented framework such as CORBA as transport for an accessibility toolkit (the most local thing you could imagine) indeed appears as, hmm, a bit of a strange idea. You'd think the pain of developping against GNOME's CORBA madness of an API would have taught a lesson or two...

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