# Getting there...
Gobs and gobs of Distributed Systems theory out of the way. Now just to reacquaint myself with CORBA, throw together a simple server object and hand in this assignment. Tomorrow... time for bed now or else gym is going to be hell tomorrow.
CORBA. Bleh. The promise of distributed computing really fascinates me. I like the idea of "systems" where autonomous services and objects all interact in a huge entropic lovefest... where a person at the perimeter asks for X and the complex and chaotic agents of a huge networked machine chatter back and forth between each other, to eventually spit back a response to the user. Here you go Mr User, and don't even *begin* to imagine what happened to get you this answer.
The problem is that by the time I get to the nitty-gritty, my overwhelming impression of CORBA is of trying to sprint through treacle. There is just so much goop needed to make it all hang together. I wonder whether this is something that is a non-issue in our days of ever-ballooning hardware capability and it's just me being naively prejudiced. What's it like out there in the real CORBA world?
But I must admit that this year, I'm finding myself more open to the concepts and possibilities. Last year I just thought it plain sucked. So I'm approaching it all with an open mind this time around.
One more thing: I hope this year's final assignment isn't another networked Tic Tac Toe game.
CORBA. Bleh. The promise of distributed computing really fascinates me. I like the idea of "systems" where autonomous services and objects all interact in a huge entropic lovefest... where a person at the perimeter asks for X and the complex and chaotic agents of a huge networked machine chatter back and forth between each other, to eventually spit back a response to the user. Here you go Mr User, and don't even *begin* to imagine what happened to get you this answer.
The problem is that by the time I get to the nitty-gritty, my overwhelming impression of CORBA is of trying to sprint through treacle. There is just so much goop needed to make it all hang together. I wonder whether this is something that is a non-issue in our days of ever-ballooning hardware capability and it's just me being naively prejudiced. What's it like out there in the real CORBA world?
But I must admit that this year, I'm finding myself more open to the concepts and possibilities. Last year I just thought it plain sucked. So I'm approaching it all with an open mind this time around.
One more thing: I hope this year's final assignment isn't another networked Tic Tac Toe game.
File under: personal, techie : {2004.05.28 01:07}
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