Interoperability under Windows (Was: [Oz] Oz vs. Squeak)

[Denys Duchier]

rcalco at cortechs.com (Bob Calco) writes:

> # Indeed, this would be very desirable.  However, I do not find the
> # prospect of a purely Windows-specific effort appealing.  It would be
> # much more desirable to plan for embedded uses of Mozart technology,
> # with COM as one instance application.
> 
> I don't think anyone wants to inprison Mozart on Windows. However, I will
> add that making a .NET port of Oz/Mozart would be a purely windows-specific
> effort. ;)

I was referring to the idea of making Oz functionality available e.g.
through COM technology.  Repackaging this functionality so that it may
be embedded in other applications is not a platform specific effort.

Personally, I would rather first aim to make it easy for arbitrary
applications to communicate with an Oz process, e.g. using DCOM,
CORBA, SOAP, XML-RPC, a direct interface to the Oz marshaling
protocol, or whatever takes your fancy.  I believe this would be more
robust, practical, scalable, and has the advantage that we can have it
today.

Cheers,

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