Re: [boost] [RMI-like-lib] is there any interest in such?

From: Maciej Sobczak (prog_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-18 07:53:42

Slawomir Lisznianski wrote:
> I've been thinking of a library that would bring RMI-like capabilities 
> to C++ (RMI stands for Remote Method Invocation).

> no cross-language support

That's bad, in my opinion. This excludes most of the useful applications 
of RMI in distributed systems, where one of the reasons to have a 
distributed system is to postpone the implementation choices (language 
in particular) or even to *enable* programs in different languages to 
communicate.

> As an example, I'm going to "implement" client and server sides of a 
> trivial calculator using proposed library.

> struct add
> { typedef function2<double, double, double> function_type; };

How do you plan to solve the problem of double (and any other type for 
that matter) having implementation-defined size (and even representation)?

Apart from that, how do you plan to encode *names* of messages, if in 
the code they exist only as compile-time names of types? The server has 
to somehow map incoming message to one of the registered operations. How?

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