Re: [Fresco-devel] [ReFresco 02] Pre-existing alternatives to CORBA

Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mbus: http://www.mbus.org , http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3259.txt
>   - Haven't looked at in detail; seems oriented towards many-to-many
>     communications, with a fairly inefficient protocol (sequence
>     numbers represented as ASCII strings?)

The advantage of an all-ASCII (or UTF8) based protocol is that it is fairly
easy to debug. XML gives the bonus of being able to use all those XML-tools
to verify message integrity/well formedness (is that even a word?)/etc.

With bandwidth and CPU time becoming cheaper all the time and developer time
for debugging staying at the same level that might be something we should
consider if we decide on rolling our own system.

-- 
Gruss,
Tobias

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