Re: On intended use cases of the distributed annex

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 25/09/2014 10:30, Maciej Sobczak a écrit :
> You can make it work, but be aware that DSA was not invented with
> heterogeneous systems in mind. That is, the annex does not define the
> wire-level protocol nor even the data type mappings, so depending on
> the particular implementation you might be forced to use the same
> compiler version for all nodes and obviously all of the nodes will
> have to be written in Ada. This might sound like heaven for some, but
> in a distributed system it might as well become a maintenance and
> integration nightmare and if at the end you will have to use
> additional protocols for integration with existing software or for
> adding software written by others or for other functions like remote
> monitoring or configuration scripts, etc., then it will become a
> bloody mess, which kind of contradicts the intentions of using Ada in
> the first place. For this reason I would not use DSA at all and
> instead try some technology-neutral communication solution.
> 
> I don't claim that the above considerations are bound to be problems,
> but certainly they are something to think about before you start.
> 
Right, but with PolyOrb you may have the same objects viewed as
distributed Ada objects from Ada, and Corba objects from the rest of the
world...

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