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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: CORBA on kde-core-devel
From:       Matthias Elter <me () main-echo ! net>
Date:       1999-09-17 16:13:30
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Am Fre, 17 Sep 1999 schrieb Martin Konold:
> > On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Bavo De Ridder wrote:
> 
> > > encourages the use of DCOM over COM for the very simple reason that DCOM
> > > offers you more stable programs (a crashing COM extention of IIS won't
> > > bring down IIS as a whole).
> 
> This is my main concern. Imagin me clicking on a URL and because konquerer
> thinks it is very intelligent tries to load some alpha quality code in
> order to display an image or play some unneeded sound. A shlib approach
> would kill the complete konquerer instead os simply producing a garbage
> picture or playing unpleasant sound. 

That may be true, but what do you suggest? A buggy CORBA component running in a
seperate process is not much better as you can't try/catch every CORBA call.
Server dies -> object is nil -> MICO exception -> main app crashes!

Greetings, Matthias

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Matthias Elter
me@kde.org / me@main-echo.net
KDE developer

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