[Biocorba-l] SOAP<->CORBA bridge

[Philip Lijnzaad]

On Tue, 15 May 2001 12:44:09 +0100, 
"Mat" == Matthew Pocock <mrp@sanger.ac.uk> wrote:

Mat> Very cool stuff - SOAP solves the granularity of transport issues we 
Mat> have (esp with *large* sequences) - and this bridge looks very funkey. 

You solve the granularity/round trip problem, but you get another problem in
return; reports have it that SOAP traffic is likely to be 10 - 1000 larger
than IIOP (especially for complex models). So some kind of compression will
be needed. But maybe it's easy to add a Content-Encoding: gunzip or so, that
would already make a big difference (although a factor of 1000 remains
steep). 

Mat> Also, at that point, we don't need to make decisions about which to use, 
Mat> as they can shair an object-model.

Mat> Perhaps we should realy have a BioUML that is then projected as CORBA, 
Mat> SOAP etc. and transduced into the apropreate language-specific bindings 
Mat> for perl, java, python. 

yes, very much; this is also the direction OMG is heading (in case anyone is
intereseted :-), with their new Model Driven Architecture (with UML
gradually replacing IDL)

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