Brad Chapman wrote: > > So, my idea was that by having remote node communication occur in > the definition layer, we could free up the brokering layer to do this kind > of stuff. I think this will speed up processing times and make for a more > efficient overall system (I had some arguments for these points in my > first mail about this). > Does this seem like an unreasonable proposal? Then the DL really does 2 things: (1) communicates between front and BL, and (2) communicates between different instances of BLs across the Internet. Correct? Should the DL be split into 2 parts then? > Well, this is another reason why I'm worried about using ORBit for > everything. Not having any experience with designing multi-threaded corba > applications, I really can't predict the kinds of problems we might see, > or how well ORBit will handle multithreading on the level that will > probably be going on in the definition layer. I guess this is an issue > where we'll just have to try it and see :-) Better support for multithreading is something the ORBit developers are working on? Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+