Nicolas Chauvat wrote: > > OTOH, we'd better stick with a simple design at first (use CORBA and SOAP > in separate parts) and improve efficiency later when needed. I agree. > Piper's > design is thought to be modular from the ground up, replacing a > communication mechanism at some point in the future shouldn't be a big > deal... don't you think? The idea of "pluggable communications", in addition to pluggable applications, is very appealing. Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org: The Open Lab http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "All those scientists--they're all alike! They say they're working for us, but what they really want is to rule the world!" -- Angry Villager, Young Frankenstein --