Re: [Debian-sf-devel] Command Line Interface

[Tim Perdue]

Roland Mas wrote:

> I have had pretty good experiences with ORBit, and I'm told ORBit2 is
> even better.  It's quite simple to program with: ten lines (in Perl or
> in Python) to setup a server, and then you just writethe methods and
> they'll be called transparently; three lines to setup a client, fetch
> the server reference, and then you just call the object method the
> usual way.
>
>   To be honest, I haven't tried the PHP bindings.

This sounds nice, maybe you could whip up a little demo or something?

As for SOAP, I think it's just a buzzword that some people look for. 
CORBA is just as good or better buzzword.

Can you transfer/upload files with CORBA? That's the question.

>   The point of CORBA is that you don't have to do that parsing stage.
> The ORB does it for you.  You just have to write normal methods in the
> server, and call normal methods in the client.
>
> Roland.