> Michael Robinson <robinson@public.bta.net.cn> writes:
> > [ pithy summary of CORBA snipped --- thanks, Michael! ]
>
> > There are three ways I can see this working:
>
> > 1. As a simple alternative for the current FE<->BE communication protocol.
> > The SQL query engine continues to intermediate all transactions. This
> > has some benefits, but is really boring to me.
>
> I agree, that's not too exciting ... although replacing our current ad-hoc
> FE/BE protocol with a standards-based protocol (I assume CORBA has a
> recognized standard for the wire-level protocol?) might well be worth doing.
Current FE/BE protocol seems pretty optimized to me, but you should know
the best. Seems like a waste to try and get it to match some standard,
expecially if we can just create a module to do it on top of the
existing protocol.
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