Re: [gnome-love] from omniorb to orbit

[Sreeji K Das <bksys vsnl com>]

Also have a look at orbit-resource.sourceforge.net for many documents on
ORBit (CORBA implementation used by gnome) & bonobo.

Sreeji

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Dan Mueth wrote:

> There is some information on the GNOME component system here:
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/arch/component/
>
> along with some links.
>
> There is also a white paper on CORBA use in GNOME here:
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/whitepapers/
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Matthew Walton wrote:
>
> > Is there by any chance a wonderful document somewhere that tells me
> > exactly what CORBA, ORBit, Bonobo and all these fantastically
> > exciting-sounding things actually are and what they can do for me as an
> > aspiring Gnome developer? I gather that Bonobo is some kind of component
> > framework, and that KDE has a thing called DCOP that's a bit similar in
> > intention at least, but I'm not quite exactly what that means. Is it
> > like (and apologies for mentioning this) some kind of hyper-pumped-up
> > OLE? Why's it so good? What's wrong with building things the
> > 'traditional' way?
> > Matt
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