Re: ORBit status? (fwd)

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:25:54 -0500 (EST), Todd Graham Lewis
<tlewis@mindspring.net> wrote:

>> > - A robust

This adjective has absolutely nothing to do with a spec of this sort.... :)

> binary interface specification for object implementations
>> > contained in shared libraries. A kind of in-process equivalent to
>> > GIOP/IIOP.
>> 
>> CORBA supports this already.

Does not... (although if you define "supports" as "doesn't disallow" then you
could be as correct as Mister Bill and his definition of "sex").

> ORBit should support it as well.

ORBit has supported same-address-space CORBA calls for a while, and the GNOME
plugin spec defines how shared libraries can make their CORBA object
implementations available loading into the address space of a program.

-- Elliot
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