>> It is also not realistic to expect all firewalls that must be traversed
to
>> support the
>> latest CORBA 3.0 Firewall Specification, i.e. ports 683 + 684 for IIOP
>> without/with SSL.
>
>Thank you for proving my point. It is exactly reasoning that this that
>makes us do crappy solutions like HTTP tunneling. If that was not an
>option users would annoy their firewall admins so much that they would
>eventually open these ports.
>
>Right now the "least resistance" rule is applied, which in this case
>means that HTTP tunneling is the norm. It sucks.
Life is hard ;-)
XmlRpc is useful unless you prefer to live in the ivory tower and wait for
all the firewall admins in the world to do the right thing.
XmlRpc is also useful on its own merits. You may integrate VB components
with CORBA servers buying a propietary briding product or you can use
XmlRpc/SOAP. I prefer the latter, specially because there may not be
a bridging product for some particular technology (ever heard of CORBA
support for Perl? )
Regards
Javier
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