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

>>>>> "Tobias" == Tobias Hunger <[email protected]> writes:

Tobias> 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?)

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

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

  We've been doing well for years using stuff like tcpdump/ethereal
for debugging protocols.  I doubt a binary packet format is an
obstacle to (efficient) debugging.

~velco