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Subject: Re: is it safe do adopt CORBA?
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On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 10:19 -0700, marcelo.batera@gmail.com wrote:


>   Some of those articles even say CORBA is dead and claims SOAP is a
> better replacement, sometimes giving some techinical "advantages" of
> SOAP over CORBA.

For sure, CORBA wasn't intended to be a quick and dirty CGI successor.
I think that SOAP is better in _this_ regard.

> Also, we need efficiency (something SOAP doesn't
> give us) and the possibility to interact with other languages (such as
> Java) over the network (something annex e doesn't provide us) and even
> the integration with the user's desktop (gnome uses intensively CORBA
> in it's very core) is very tempting.

Have you considered evaluating PolyORB?
https://libre.adacore.com/polyorb/

J2EE literature says that CORBA is too low level. OTOH, I understand
you want to make specialized business software?