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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: SOAP <-> DCOP
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: 2001-06-22 15:55:38
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On Friday 22 June 2001 07:07 am, Dan Pilone wrote:
> We have talked
> about extending DCOP to do this SOAP communication but haven't acutally
> done it yet. The reason is that SOAP doesn't "quite" line up with what
> DCOP is doing now. Meaning, we could do a lot of what DCOP does, but not
> quite all of it. (The two way registration, the interface discovery, etc.)
> We could let the actual calls be carried via soap though. And as
> Kurt/Waldo pointed out, DCOP is currently using libICE as its transport.
> We'd need to put an HTTP transport in there, which would make security an
> issue again. We may end up going the route of kxmlrpcd, where there is a
> seperate daemon running that talks to the dcopserver. We haven't worked
> that out yet.
I would recommend that, design wise. DCOP is a very criticical piece of KDE
so we should try to keep it as simple as possible. E.g. a crash of the
DCOPserver is as bad as your X server crashing, you really want to have it
bugfree and the less lines of code, the closer you can get to that.
Cheers,
Waldo
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