Corba? Hmmm. Will have to look into it. As for XML.... Microsoft has been
plans on using it for multi-plaform communication. This is their idea in a
nutshell.
Webservers act as the "middle tier" which applications talk to. MS is going
to wrap its COM components in XML so that way foreign hosts can interpret
the data coming in over HTTP requests. As long as the hosts can understand
XML, you can write a windows desktop app to interface with it.
And this is not just "windows desktop to other platforms". This will also
allow non-windows hosts to communicate with windows servers and desktops.
They are trying to make it work for two-way communication. I believe it is
their whole Biztalk initiative. They even have SQL Server able to return
queries in XML format as well as service queries over HTTP requests from a
webbrowser by typing the query as part of the URL.
Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joachim Achtzehnter" <joachim@kraut.ca>
To: <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Connecting remotely - multi tier
> Today, in a message to pgsql-interfaces, Adam Lang wrote:
> >
> > Windows applications in a distributed architecture connect over RPC
> > and DCOM.
>
> If you use CORBA instead of DCOM you can easily communicate between
> Windows and Linux/UNIX hosts.
>
> > or waiting till XML comes around more,
>
> XML is already everywhere, even Microsoft has XML support. But XML is
> just a document format, not a communication protocol, hence even if
> you use XML you still need to decide what protocol you use to move XML
> from host to host.
>
> Joachim
>
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