From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Mar 11 14:42:03 1999
Subject: Corba
From: "Matthew Valenta" <mvalenta at lycosmail dot com>
To: "Octave Graphics" <octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:01:01 -0800

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>    MJV> The sort of CORBA interfaces that I had in mind (GNOME's Baboon
>    MJV> and KDE's KOM/OP) are not in place yet.  I'm not even sure if
>    MJV> they're usable yet.
>
> My knowledge of CORBA and sockets is nearly zero.  Could you list the
> potential advantages of using CORBA interfaces instead of doing a regular
> implementation with libraries [e.g. (wx)Gtk and PLplot]?

My knowledge of CORBA is also low.  Essentially, it will be the next
generation  of pipes used for interprocess communication.  The advantage
would be that instead of writing our own graphing program, we would just
communicate with somebody else's.  The problem is essentially that there
aren't a lot of people working on scientific plotting programs with corba
interfaces!

However, even if we decide to write our own plotter, it might be worthwhile
forking that into a separate program and have Octave and the Plotter
communicated via Corba.  That way, if someone else (for example rlab) wanted
to use our plotting program, all they would have to do is implement a Corba
interface, rather than having to write their own.

In a nutshell, I'm throwing the idea out of implementing the GUI as a
separate program that accepts instructions via corba (or just pipes now.)

Matthew Valenta
mvalenta at lycosmail dot com
Phone: 206-524-6444
Fax:   847-589-0685

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