Re: Distributed Objects between cats
Re: Distributed Objects between cats
- Subject: Re: Distributed Objects between cats
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:06:53 +1000
While it's true that DO hasn't really seen much change in the time
that Apple has had Cocoa, it seems more like a case of not fixing what
isn't broke rather than just general neglect. If anything Apple could
be preparing to switch Networked DO over to using NSStreams allowing
for SSL contexts to give us actual encryption of sensitive data. That
is of course me looking at the glass half full, since I have nothing
to suggest this is the case other than the fact that most of Cocoa
slowly graduates from old code and formats, to new more open formats.
You can already do DO over SSL - that's the previous project I was
talking about in my earlier email. <http://sourceforge.net/projects/
securedo/>
I understand the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" methodology, and
it's application here. But I wonder if DO is not already "broken"...
does it work with bindings? (this isn't rhetorical; I don't use
bindings, so I don't know)... it seems there's a lot of scenarios you
can dream up where it wouldn't work properly, because it makes
certain assumptions about how you work with classes... I won't go
into details, since it's a pretty simple thought exercise. A lot of
these scenarios might apply to bindings (from what little I know of
it's internals).
But anyway, as much as I'd love to see DO rise like a phoenix, I
doubt it'll ever happen; I've been waiting for a few years now.
Wade Tregaskis (AIM/iChat, Yahoo, Gizmo & Skype: wadetregaskis, ICQ:
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