Re: [boost] Re: RPC library

From: Iain Hanson (Iain.Hanson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-07 08:01:43

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 22:59 +0000, Jarl Lindrud wrote:
> Iain Hanson <Iain.Hanson <at> videonetworks.com> writes:

> To sum up then, your position is that:
> 
> 1) CORBA is the be-all and end-all of distributed programming.
> 
No. Its just the best that we have available.

> 2) Anything not projected to need CORBA-style scaleability is just a "toy" and 
> not worthy of library support.
> 
Probably. But the problem is that people build quick and dirty apps that
grow like Topsy. Its the danger of this that make me against non
scalable solutions.

> 
> I guess you don't find much need for networking at all in Boost? At least not 
> beyond lowlevel socket API wrappers and assorted utilites that might be useful 
> for something like realtime socket apps. Anything beyond that can, and should, 
> be done with CORBA, regardless of scale and scope.
> 
Doug Schmidt certainly tends to argue in this direction. However, given
that CORBA is not ubiquitous and is not ever likely to be then there is
always going to be a need for sockets.

/ikh