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Fiction from Fantasy

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The ability for programs to communicate is a core tenet for the way we want Longhorn to work," said Box. But, he said, object-oriented programming is just not all it was made out to be. "What promised in the '90s to be the most promising technology turned out not to be. By the 1990s, no one disputed that we could make objects work as an industry, but we got carried away with the metaphor. We naively said, 'This notion of objects that seems to pan out so well when writing programs...should work for communications between programs.'"

Box said technologies such as Java's Remote Method Invocation (RMI) and CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) all suffered similar problems. "The metaphor of objects as a primary distribution media is flawed. CORBA started out with wonderful intentions, but by the time they were done, they fell into the same object pit as COM."

The problem with most distributed object technologies, Box said, is that programs require particular class files or .jar files (referring to Java), or .dll files (Microsoft's own dynamic linked libraries). "We didn't have (a) true arms-length relationship between programs," Box said. "We were putting on an appearance that we did, but the programs had far more intimacy with each other than anyone felt comfortable with."

"How do we discourage unwanted intimacy?" he asked. "The metaphor we're going to use for integrating programs (on Indigo) is service orientation. I can only interact by sending and receiving messages. Message-based (communications) gives more flexibility."

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I see this with the aspect of an 'application - being thought of as a 'service. But I dont see the 'application as such being a 'service.

This has a tendency to have more corrosponding definition by unknown,and need to understand entities - which will conclude their bounds are 'educated.

Each thing that is defined by what is made public has an alternative 'real world defintion. You see this with Microsofts first use of 'schema-its real definition is the root of 'schematic,but you see by holding its head,....it(schema) only spells the silence of something complete beyond reaching or deciding its completion.

Then again you've got to believe the news stories are running their word processors day and night parsing the enevitible end to the means through consequences. Of wich there is only condition.

The condition may or may not correspond to a 'service ,since this is meaningless to the uneducated. Because I believe I had service before interaction became a construct.

As an example I can portray that there is very little depth in the black and white text that states the same factual functions. Service no,interaction no. Black and white text maybe,and maybe not.

May very well be something keen fiction from fantasy.

hhhhm...sigh..


-just talking.

Posted by: ParadigmOdyssey   Posted on: 01/27/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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