Re: TCP Server

Thanks everyone for the responses...

Really nice to know all this - got some good info.  I've downloaded
avalon and plan to start tinkering with it tomorrow.  My only worry
was about if it was "low-level" enough to handle system level
activities and also modular so that i could have the nice
abstraction/encapsulation that stuff like ejb provides.

Regards,
Vinod.

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:51:52 +0200, Stephen McConnell
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: 10 August 2004 15:38
> > To: Avalon framework users
> > Subject: Re: TCP Server
> >
> > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 20:17, Vinod Panicker wrote:
> >
> > > I've shortlisted CORBA and Avalon.  Wanted to know if others have
> > > experience with building such servers using Avalon and how well it
> > > fares.
> >
> > The Jabber server implementation called OpenIM is based on Avalon
> Merlin.
> > Probably can't get closer than that.
> >
> > Corba and Avalon differs a lot. Corba is more oriented towards
> > 'applications'
> > that exposes services over a network, and Avalon is at 'in-process'
> > components exposes services to peers.
> >
> > IMHO, you are probably better off with Merlin than Corba (Stephen is a
> big
> > Corba-fan, but I think he will concur on this ).
> 
> 
> Stephen concurs.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Basically CORBA is a couple of levels higher - its good for managing
> remotely accessible services, value-types, and the back-end machinery
> for service activation.  In fact Avalon is used as the component model
> in the OpenORB project and I've also used Merlin as the management
> platform for deployment of CORBA services (for both reference and value
> based applications).
> 
> Steve.
>