On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 22:48 +0100, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > > "The Internet Communications Engine (Ice) is a modern alternative to > > object middleware such as CORBAâ or COM/DCOM/COM+. Ice is easy to learn, > > yet provides a powerful network infrastructure for demanding technical > > applications. Ice shines where technologies such as SOAP or XML-RPC are > > too slow, or do not provide sufficient scalability or security. > > Did anyone (preferrably someone who's independent from the suppliers - no > flamewars please) ever compare OmniORB and ICE, especially the Python > interfaces of both, concerning: > > - functionality offered > - development efficiency > - performance & ressource requirements > - stability, implementation quality etc.? > > TIA, > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Keller >
No flamewar intended, but I've been having a lot of fun with the Python bindings for DBUS. The documentation needs a little touchup work (read: the documentation needs to be written), but they've designed a lovely IPC with differing security scopes for system-wide event notification and local-user event notification. Even better, it's fd.o approved : http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ -jag -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list