[Fresco-devel] network transparency

cinap_lenrek <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:39:54 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.fresco.devel
Message-ID <20030717183954.GA9491@balthasar>
hi

imho... fresco is not very network-transparent yet. for example... images have
to be stored on the servers side... i think to write a client-lib that
for exaple loads the image-file... and transfair it to the server with corba
is not a good idea... because you then have to write wrapper-libs for other
programing-languages... and you will lose the "all-you-need-is-an-orb"-feature.

what is planed to solve this problem?

my idea is to provide something like a localServer, that provides corba-objects
to handle this kind of problems. (transfairing big blocks of data to the server)
maybe providing routines for bypassing corba as the transfair-channel.
(using a network-filesystem or ssh...)

you can also use it like an xdm... or providing interfaces to the application
to store local configuration data...

of course... this will make berlin/fresco more complex... and i have never
written any line of code for that... and maybe its to early for thinking 
about that... 

maybe here is already a discussion for this...
(i never found it on the Wiki)

i'll be happy for a response... i realy want to better understand fresco

sorry for my bad english... -_-

cinap_lenrek