Re: distributed objects? (Plusses & minuses of NeXT's design)

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From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 18:58

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>In article <1992Sep24.013242.21299@news2.cis.umn.edu> burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu (Paul Burchard) writes:
>>In article <5123@rosie.NeXT.COM> sam_s@NeXT.com (Sam Streeper) writes:
>>...
>
>I think Distributed Objects is one of the greatest features of 3.0.  It opens
>..
>
>However, I feel that there is one glaring flaw in the design of 3.0 D.O.'s.
>The set of message parameter types supported is just not broad enough to make

    There is another glaring flaw and that is their handling of dead
    connections.  I have yet to be able to get reliable notification of a
    dead distributed object being accessed remotely.  Without this,
    distributed objects are useless!

    Yet another flaw is the totally non-intuitive methods relating to
    connecting to distributed objects -- it doesn't 'just work', it's a
    mess, and you have to be careful.

    Orginally I had planned to use DO's for IPC but until I figure out how
    to get reliable notification of death its unusable for that purpose.

					    -Matt

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