On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:40:46 -0400, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
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!
But that's exactly how boost.mpi works, isn't it ?
See? Crazy! In all seriousness though, it seems that they do similar things but my bet is that one is considered more enterprisey. Just did a quick Google, and lookie here: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~pmn/scf00/pro3/images/corba-mpi.gif Enterprisyness is sometimes the difference between MPI and other distributed computing environments. Oh well, keeps us interested, doesn't it? Besides, variety is the spice of life ;-) -- Sohail Somani http://uint32t.blogspot.com