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[Jarl van Katwijk]

"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote:
> 
> Nicolas Chauvat wrote:
> >
> > SOAP is slow... because parsing XML messages is slow and using a generic
> > format for marshalling objects is verbose (ie much slower than Corba and
> > its stub mechanism). But it works and looks like a good open-standard
> > candidate.
> 
> We don't have to choose one or the other for everything.  There's nothing
> wrong with:
> 
>   Local: CORBA
>     (UIL <--> DL <--> BL <--> PL)
> 
>   Remote: SOAP or Fipa
>     (BL <--> BL or DL <--> DL)
> 
> Or is there?

There always is, but very little compared to other designs. This is the
setup I had in mind too.

jarl