Slawomir Lisznianski wrote:
I've been thinking of a library that would bring RMI-like capabilities to C++ (RMI stands for Remote Method Invocation).
no cross-language support
That's bad, in my opinion. This excludes most of the useful applications of RMI in distributed systems, where one of the reasons to have a distributed system is to postpone the implementation choices (language in particular) or even to *enable* programs in different languages to communicate.
As an example, I'm going to "implement" client and server sides of a trivial calculator using proposed library.
struct add { typedef function2<double, double, double> function_type; };
How do you plan to solve the problem of double (and any other type for that matter) having implementation-defined size (and even representation)? Apart from that, how do you plan to encode *names* of messages, if in the code they exist only as compile-time names of types? The server has to somehow map incoming message to one of the registered operations. How? -- Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/ Programming : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/