From timucin@npac.syr.edu Thu Mar  4 16:13:25 1999
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:13:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Hasan Timucin Ozdemir <timucin@npac.syr.edu>
To: Wojtek Furmanski <furm@npac.syr.edu>
Cc: Ankur Sood <asood@npac.syr.edu>
Subject: Re: XML RPC


On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Wojtek Furmanski wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Hasan Timucin Ozdemir wrote:
> > Why do we need to implement both of them?
> 
> we don't need to do both and I agree that your option 2 is better
> but I wonder if we should go ahead with it or rather view it as special
> case of some more general XML RPC; and if the latter, perhaps the
> implementation of option 1 could share some code with option 2 through
> this more generic XML RPC (operating either at client or server side)
> 

Writing an XML RPC removes the CORBA/IIOP reqirement, but:

 *) We need to come up with some model for addressing object management,
    format of XML RPC, etc. issues that is already specified in CORBA,
    COM, etc. (Redefinition of new Middleware based on XML)

 *) still, we need to either find or write some decent C/C++ XML Parser
    to be able to support current demos. Since similar middleware support
    should be provided in C/C++. OR, we go with bridges while crossing
    middleware technologies. 

Regards,


 

