At 12:44 AM 1/2/2002 +0000, Nick Loman wrote: >Hello PHP developers, > >Interesting to think about what might make a nice foundation technology >for all the exciting potential of PHP5. SOAP is obviously an important >technology for websites in the future. But given that (I guess) most of us >are not really that keen to follow in the nervous footsteps of Microsoft, >and given that XML brings me out in a horrible rash, why don't we think >about CORBA as a fundamental PHP technology? > >CORBA is now finally in a state where people can actually use it >without running away screaming. There are now enough free implementations >on enough platforms to enable mainstream PHP support. David Eriksson >has done some nice stuff with Universe/Satellite, but I don't think PHP's >CORBA support is currentl "plug n' go" enough to really be capitalised on >(it currently relies on a fair amount of knowledge of CORBA). > >What would be fantastic is a situation where newbie PHP coders feel >confident enough to use CORBA services exposed to the Internet (not many >exist at the moment, the "classic" example is Random.org but this >could change). If it was easy enough to start interacting with ORBs >exposed to the 'Net, and it was easy enough for PHP developers to write >their own net-facing ORBs, we could potentially be facing an interesting >paradigm shift whereby PHP users are exposing their interesting objects >(which may, e.g. provide access to databases, content) to the 'net. Much >sexier than say RDF, no? > >If anyone would like to help me in my quest to make CORBA more mainstream >(CORBA isn't really scary, at its most basic its just cross-platform >remote procedure calls) I would love to work with you. > >All the best for 2002 everyone,
We are going to try to improve the object overloading in ZE2 so I suggest not working on this before we see what we can come up with. Basically we are just trying to make it easier for people to overload objects from C and make it a bit more powerful. In the meanwhile you can still play around with different Corba implementations and choose how you're going to do it but I suggest waiting because it'll hopefully save you lots of headaches. Andi -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
