[Zope-dev] ZServer design ideas: gneeral comments

[Christopher Petrilli]

On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:32:48PM -0500, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
> Perhaps CORBA? Zope as a CORBA client, turning objects into HTML? I may
> be talking through my hat here - what I don't know about CORBA could
> fill libraries.

Actually, this should be quite possible, assuming you do an ORB bridge
between CORBA and the interface that Zope expects.  How USEFUL it would
be is a totally seperat question :-)  CORBA is (in most implementations)
awefully heavy, and quite ugly. :-)  What I see CORBA being good for is
as a way to interface a Zope system to nefarious third-party stuff that
hasn't been shown the true light yet :-)  But this should be hit with
EVERY web hit. :-)

> Hmm, there also seems to be a dearth of Free CASE tools. Perhaps the
> XML/RDF stuff will fix that, via the back door :-)

Um, probably because there's a dirth of good CASE tools in general.
Lots of crap, very little useful stuff, and that which IS useful is
terribly expensive.  This is just my two cents from trying to use what's
out there.  When I worked for LMSC we invested literally millions into
this stuff and then flushed it because it was too ridged.  UML helps
some of this, but it's still too difficult to model lots of concepts.

Chris
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