[PEAK] GNU Enterprise

[Ulrich Eck]

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 17:19 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 10:33 PM 2/6/05 +0100, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
> > >>> Technologically, there are some other differences, such as GNUe's 
> > emphasis
> > >>> on CORBA.
> > >>
> > >>There is no support for Corba in GNUe (implemented yet). Currently, XML-RPC
> > >>is used.
> > >
> > > How odd; I could have sworn the whole thing was built on an ORB, the last
> > > time I looked.  Admittedly, that's been at least a year ago, maybe two.
> >
> >Well, on the GNUe mailinglist Reinhard Müller told me that there is no
> >Corba support implemented. And I would guess that he's in a pretty good
> >position to know, because he's the one who is implementing the appserver.
> >;-)
> 

they rewrote the appserver from scratch in python - before it was
written in C + CORBA -
using a plugable approach for db- and network-drivers about 1.5 yrs ago.

i haven't looked at it since then .. 

cheers ulrich




> Interesting.  This is from their FAQ:
> 
> """Internally, GNUe n-tier is object based. The objects contain data and 
> business rules with data stored in an SQL database. The business objects 
> are accessed using CORBA and we use Python-orbit for binding Python to our 
> current ORB ORBit."""
> 
> So, perhaps it needs updating.  :)
> 
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