CORBA [WAS: thoughts(?) on interconnecting dbus on 2 systems to get anything useful...]

[John Woltman]

If you're willing to be experimental, Qt 5.8 and 5.9 have a module called
"Remote Objects".  Since it's Qt I would assume it's cross platform.
There's some info on the wiki (https://wiki.qt.io/QtCS2015_QtRemoteObjects)
and Qt's official docs website (
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtremoteobjects-index.html).

-John

John Woltman
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Earnie <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>
wrote:

> On 6/20/2017 12:43 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> > ----
> >    The state of the art 10-20 years ago allowed for Distributed messaging
> > between machines using CORBA which was preceeded by "DCE" (something
> still
> > used by Samba).  A non-adopter was Microsoft which used DCOM.  DCOM still
> > survives, but CORBA didn't seem to.  It used names for applications with
> > with name numbers and dots in them and was arranged hierarchically.
> >    It looks like the naming that DBUS uses is similar.  CORBA used ORB
> > for applications or "components" to talk to each other -- either on the
> > same
> > machine or on a different one.
> >    See more on this @
> > http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/definition/CORBA and
> > http://searchmicroservices.techtarget.com/definition/
> Object-Request-Broker-ORB
> >
> >
> >    Or just google for Distributed CORBA.
> >
> >    Since DBUS looks very similar to what CORBA was using (I thought it
> > looked
> > familiar), I think I was expecting it was an evolution of that, but it
> > looks
> > like it was a reimplementation.
> >
> >    Also looks like Microsoft, at least, agreed to a "gateway" between
> > CORBA and the "Component Object Model" (COM), so cross architecture
> > communication would be possible.
> >
> >    Maybe DBUS could use a gateway approach to send inter-application
> > messages
> > across machine boundaries?
> >
> >    It looks like the reliability issue was solved a decade or more ago
> > (looks like the docs were from 2006)  I thought I remember seeing CORBA
> > implementations back in the 1990's... hmm.
> >
> >    Maybe unix code from that project could be ported to linux...dunno.
>
> I still see CORBA being used among many vendor applications.  Maybe
> you'd be interested in http://www.theaceorb.com?
>
> --
> Earnie
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