From kde-core-devel  Tue Sep 14 20:58:19 1999
From: Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:58:19 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: the MICO/CORBA issue.
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Currently many people are unhappy about MICO and/or CORBA in general, some
>even hate it/both ;-)
>(*excluding* me)
>
>We discussed a lot on IRC lately about this.
>
>Another separate discussion was about plugins for KImageShop. The major reason
>why Matthias Elter wanted them to be contained in shared libs was speed.
>CORBA based plugins, with the plugins "sitting" in separated process, would just
>result in a performance problem.
>
>Now recently I told Matthias about the fact that MICO's BOA is able to load
>CORBA objects from shared libs.
>
>And this was the key which made him suddenly wake up in the middle of the
>night (as he told us :) , bringing up the following proposal:
>
>The whole component technology in KDE should be based on shared libs. Components
>are small encapsulated pieces of software, and separating them in shlibs
>represents the idea of a component based environment.
>
>AFAIK COM, Star Office and Mozilla implement components exactly like this, via
>shared libraries, not via separate processes.
>
>So for example all KOffice document and view implementations would be shlibs.
>(just think of libkword.so ;-)
>
>Quite the same with Konqueror: The mainview and its builtin view components.
>
>The reason for this trouble?
>- performance/speed
>- design
>
>What remains is the question of network interoperability. The average user
>probably won't deal much with this, but killing this feature is surely the wrong
>thing. So the solution is quite simple:
>Provide a kind of component server (kded?), loading the components dynamically
>on request and forking into a separate process then (to avoid one crashing 
>component to crash the whole component server) , serving them via IIOP.
>
>This is what Matthias is proposing, and IMHO it is an exciting proposal :-)
>
>My personal comment:
>
>Together with tinyMico this could be a real alternative to the current
>situation. 
>
>I like it, and I'd be willing to spend my free time helping with the "big 
>conversion" and helping rewriting kded, if we decide going for it.
>
>Now: What do you think of this? 

I like this idea a loooooooooooooooooooooooot! :-)

-- 
Reggie