From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e429176c9adb07b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-17 02:01:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!diablo.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!xara.net!gxn.net!195.149.39.220.MISMATCH!news-peer.gradwell.net!not-for-mail Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 References: From: porton@ex-code.com (Victor Porton) Subject: Re: [OT] Best way to isolate a GUI? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 19:49:20 +0500 Organization: Extreme Code Software (http://ex-code.com) X-URL: http://www.ex-code.com/ NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Feb 2003 10:01:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.149.39.13 X-Trace: 1045476095 news.gradwell.net 329 mail2news/195.149.39.13 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@gradwell.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34166 Date: 2003-02-17T10:01:35+00:00 List-Id: In article , Jano <402450@cepsz.unizar.es> writes: > as for my (lately) frequent questions, you may be aware I'm starting a > new project in Ada. Well, the matter is that I want the core > functionality to be isolated from the GUI. And that's the question: > how's the best mean to do that. > > I've thought the following: > > 2) Use sockets to communicate the two processes. > 2.a) Use regular Ada streams to pass data types. > 2.b) Use some other protocol, for example [compressed] XML. Ada has partitions for this! (See RM.)