[Fwd: Re: Is CORBA dead for Ada]

[Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>]

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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
To: Stephane Richard <stephane.richard@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Is CORBA dead for Ada
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:33:37 +0000
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On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 01:28, Stephane Richard wrote:
> "Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org> wrote in message
> news:bn20as$rl85q$1@ID-25716.news.uni-berlin.de...
> 
> > So would I, but the DSA as it currently stands is suitable only for
> > embedded systems (it has no reflection, security, transaction management,
> > publication, and so on), and the ARG seems to be very reluctant to expand
> > the DSA's role (or separately extend it).
> 
> *** I wonder why.

Because those things (security etc.) are there in actual implementations
e.g. GLADE?

But I understand the desire for a kind of standard extension. If it can
be done inside the language (perhaps with ASIS), then it could be a CAL
branch ;-)

"Keep Ada small, create a big library" could be the internal motto of
the CAL developers.