How good is CORBA?

[Gary Duzan]

In article <mailman.544.1164134192.32031.python-list at python.org>,
Sai Krishna M <saikrishbe at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>i have been developing web based applications using python+cheetah.
>
>The numbers are increasing. The applications have many common parts of
>code. Though these applications are separate from each other they are
>run in the same server.
>
>I heard about CORBA... but also heard that it has some flaws...like
>the programming being very complicated.
>Also heard that CORBA is no more used these days...

   CORBA is good for what it is good for. It does take some time
to get up to speed on it, but eventually most of it makes sense.
Some of the language mappings, especially C++, can be hard to use
safely, but the Python mapping is much easier to use.

   If you need good performance, multiple language support, multiple
OS/hardware platform support, and preferably control both ends of
the communication, CORBA may be for you. Check out omniORB for C++
and Python (http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/), and JacORB for Java
(http://www.jacorb.org/).

   Good luck.

					Gary Duzan
					Motorola CHS