Re: OT: Heterogenous networks

Man... everything has to be so hard to make a decision on... Sometimes I
wish someone was here before me that made these tech decisions...

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Crawley" <crawley@dstc.edu.au>
To: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
Cc: "pgsql-interfaces" <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>;
<crawley@dstc.edu.au>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] OT: Heterogenous networks


> > I agree, it is different, but XML and SOAP means no licensing, not
platform
> > dependent and standardized. :)
>
> CORBA is both standardised and platform independent.
>
> Furthermore, if you use one of the many Open Source ORBs you don't need
> to pay license fees to anyone.
>
> CORBA is also more mature and technically superior to SOAP:
>
>   *  There are many implementations of CORBA in the market place
>      with a variety of support model; e.g. ranging from proprietary
>      source / commercial through to "free" (in the FSF sense).
>
>   *  All the cruft of building and parsing XML structures in SOAP
>      is done automatically in CORBA by generated stubs.
>
>   *  CORBA IIOP is far more compact than XML representations,
>      and can be marshalled and unmarshalled a lot faster.
>
>   *  CORBA gives you object references and object location transparency.
>
>   *  CORBA has a wide range of existing intrastructure and application
>      domain services.
>
>   *  The OMG is working on a standard for CORBA over XML.
>
>   *  and so on.
>
> -- Steve
>
>