Er, yeah. What he said.
>Um, yes, I'd agree with much of this. Mind you, it presupposes that
>the point of the exercise is to pull all the objects together to one
>(time/space) coordinate, which I've already indicated doesn't have to be
>the goal.
One of the things that CORBA does have going for it that Java doesn't (for
now)
is the notion of persistent object references/URLs. i.e. that it doesn't
matter
if the object is active in memory, or pickled to tape, punch-cards, or
teeth marks
in play-doh; if you've got an adapter that can unpickle/reactivate it, that
objref/URL is always useable as-is.
That means that you don't need to pre-walk your structure in order to pickle.
Just pickle the ref, and it's still valid. By-value, or by-reference doesn't
matter.
What ever happened to those "synergistic" arguments that we were expecting
with the
"How I learned to stop worrying and love HTTP" paper? I think you'd do a
lot better
to concentrate on those points than to try to find flaws with distributed
object
computing. Plus, I'm really interested to hear them.
MB
-- Mark Baker, Ottawa Ontario CANADA. Java, CORBA, OpenDoc, Beans distobj@acm.org, mbaker@nortel.ca http://www.iosphere.net/~markbToo many dinosaurs, too few meteors - Seyma Atik