[Oz] newbie question...

[Mikael Kindborg]

At 15:38 2001-01-08 +0100, Mahmoud Rafea wrote:
>As regard COM on Win32, there is no standard interface library but you can:
>1) Use the Mozart C++ interface library features to build an application
>specific code that interface with COM
>2) Build the application COM code with MSVC or VB and communicate with
>Mozart through PIPES or Sockets).

If someone puts together a generic mechanism for calling COM objects I would
interested.

>I prefer the second solution.

I would be interested in why you prefer the second alternative. Is is because
it is more general? (You could for instance interface with Java-code in 
this way.)
What about performance issues? What is the performance difference between
calling C++ code versus packing/sending/unpacking data streams?

Best, Micke


>Hope this helps,
>
>Mahmoud Rafea
>www.sics.se/~mahmoud
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-oz-users at ps.uni-sb.de [mailto:owner-oz-users at ps.uni-sb.de]On
>Behalf Of Peter Van Roy
>Sent: den 8 januari 2001 14:53
>To: Kris Prieb
>Cc: users at mozart-oz.org; support at mozart-oz.org
>Subject: Re: [Oz] newbie question...
>
>
> > What are the databases or database interfaces that Mozart programmers
> > typically use?  I can't seem to find any in the distribution.
> >
> > Also are there any libraries for interfacing with COM on Win32?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Kris Prieb
>
>All I know is there is a GDBM interface; see the Contributed Libraries
>manual.
>For small in-memory databases, it can be a good idea to use the Pickle
>module.
>
>Peter
>
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