On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Sohail Somani <sohail@taggedtype.net> wrote:
On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:25:45 +0200, David RodrÃguez Ibeas wrote:
Considering the interest placed lately in JSON and other Serialization backends, a CORBA backend might be of interest to GSoC students and could be useful for the implementation.
Not a CORBA expert (read it is as COBRA (the reptile) for a long time!) but I think a CORBA backend makes no sense for serialization. Instead you might use serialization to marshal the data between distributed C++ components. Sounds crazy enough to work!
Correct. Further, since CORBA deals with remote objects etc, it requires serialization that is cross platform. e.g. Platform A must always be able to correctly deserialize messages that were serialized by platform B, for all platforms A and B. I believe this not to be the case for Boost.Serialization, but Sohail would clearly know the answer to this. Jon