site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com On 18. Sep 2018, at 19:25, Alastair Houghton <alastair@alastairs-place.net> wrote:

Well, Cocoa has Distributed Objects, which you could use for this purpose. DO has some interesting behaviour (in particular, watch out - it can throw exceptions, even when calling methods that don’t normally do so), but it does let you send messages to objects fairly easily over a network.

From what I remember, DO also has some very ... interesting behaviour when it comes to time-outs, and predictable timing, as well as dropped connections. Basically, it mostly assumes a stable, near-instant network, and there's no good way to recover from a dropped network, and no control over how long it will take to recover from stalls etc. either.

In short, DO is intended for small LANs, so if you're planning to use it over the internet ... don't. If you need a fairly painless way for network communication, I'd suggest creating your own mechanism on top of queues of message objects and keyed, or better secure, archiving. You can always model things after XPC, with the same method names etc. Cheers, -- Uli Kusterer "The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..." http://www.zathras.de _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com