Alistair, > On Sep 18, 2018, at 13:25, Alastair Houghton <alast...@alastairs-place.net> > wrote: > >> On 18 Sep 2018, at 16:48, Sandor Szatmari <admin.szatmari....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Thanks Alistair! >> >> Anyone else have additional info? > > Well, Cocoa has Distributed Objects, which you could use for this purpose. > DO has some interesting behaviour
Yes, we have several DO apps. We’ve used DO for 10+ years for LAN based peer to peer solution on in house apps. I am looking to implement some new functionality and wanted to stay away from deprecated technology if I can. So, I was looking at newer solutions so as to not reinvent the wheel. So it appears that XPC is only like interprocess DO, and is unable to do inter-machine RPC. Ok, thanks! And quite a nice breakdown of the RPC bone yard. Hearing CORBA takes me back down memory lane. :) Thanks again for your time and thoughts! Sandor > (in particular, watch out - it can throw exceptions, even when calling > methods that don’t normally do so), but it does let you send messages to > objects fairly easily over a network. There’s also Sun RPC (which uses the > rpcgen tool, which you can find documented here: > <https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/816-1435/rpcgenpguide-24243/index.html>). > Both of those are built-in to the macOS. > > There are other options too, but they’ll be more work; for instance CORBA, > DCE RPC (or indeed DCOM, which is based on it), SOAP, XML-RPC, or a Restful > HTTP(S) interface. Or, indeed, a custom TCP-based server. > > Exactly what you use depends on what’s best for your use case, which you > don’t describe. In particular, cross-platform support is a major driver > here; if you use DO, you probably won’t find it easy to talk to Windows or > Linux machines if you ever need to in the future, and while Sun RPC is easy > on most UNIX systems, Windows uses DCE RPC. CORBA is probably only of > interest if you’re trying to talk to some enterprise system already built > with it. SOAP, XML-RPC and Restful HTTP(S) are fairly general purpose and > might be good choices if you ever wanted to talk to a server built with (say) > Python or Ruby. > > Anyway... > > Kind regards, > > Alastair. > > -- > http://alastairs-place.net > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
