Re: oaf and bonobo background question

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

> 1) The trader service gives you already existing objects only, it does
>    not deal with activation at all.

The trader can have a backend that does activation according to my
friend Alex.  I am just repeating what I heard.  It seems to make
sense, but I have no further information on the topic at this point. 

> 2) OAF describes the attributes of the object as static XML data in a
>    separate file, rather than as a series of CORBA calls to define and
>    set each attribute; this tends to be more maintainable.

That is the backend implementation;  You could as well use the same
backend for the trader.