Re: GNOME CVS: gnome-core mmclouglin

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, ERDI Gergo wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > So what's inherently more lightweight in SOAP in comparison to CORBA?
> > 
> > Thats still comparing whales to one another. 
> 
> I don't see what huge amounts of superflous information CORBA the protocol
> passes around that qualifies it as a 'whale'. Sure it would rule to be
> able to trasmit data (in this case, method invocation requests) without
> using any actual bandwidth, but there's this evil 'Physics' thing that
> keeps us from doing that.
> 

There are other RPC protocols that are more lightweight than CORBA. I'm
not sure how high on thelist of prorities lightweightness was when CORBA
was designed but it could not have been tat high 8-)

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	Sander

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