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_(CORBA) is the Common Object Request Broker Architecture. The document describing OMG CORBA bindings for Common Lisp is available at ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/orbos/99-05-18.pdf . _(Peter Van Eynde): _(CORBA) is a poor match with _(CLOS): _(CORBA) methods can have a variable number of arguments, which results in having all methods having arguments (object &rest parameters) . This is less then ideal, and especially the GUI tools like _(ilisp) are helpless to give useful argument lists. There is no concept of a mix-in of course The ANY type is nice, but most implementations only convert the first level of an ANY object, so you'll get a list of ANY objects instead of a list of lisp objects like strings and integers. You need to realize each object in turn to get that list of lisp things. Note that this is not a problem with the current implementations, but with a basic problem related to the _(copying problem) in Common Lisp. Other _(CORBA) problem include the failure of many people to realize that this is Network programming and things like bandwith and latency are not to be underestimated. So no "This method returns a cookie and you need to use this object method to itterate through it" but: "This methods returns the number of records found and a list containing the first N results, use method foo to get the next N". The latter method reduces latency and makes better use of the network bandwidth. I could rant for hours on this subject... _(Peter Van Eynde) Another thing: _(CORBA) uses CDR-encoding which is the on-the-wire encoding of objects, not the memory-saving trick used in the old lisp machines :-). CDR, in the context of CORBA, is a <em>Common Data Representation.</em> For free CORBA for Common Lisp, see /("CORBA" :attribute :topic :match :exact)
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