Brad Chapman wrote: > > Hmmm! I think you are definately overestimating my corba skills... > Everything that I've looked at has pretty much been stuff from the > list. Basically, I read through some really basic Corba stuff (on the > omg page and elsewhere) about 100 million times until I could finally > manage to grasp the general concept of what was going on. Then I'll do that too! Then I > started into reading the Fnorb docs (which I think are a pretty good > intro to things, especially for python) and then headed on into the > Bonobo docs (very enlightening for me after the 13th or 14th time > through :). Oh cripes, my reading list is piling up! > From there, I've been looking at as much code as I can get my > hands on, and also am using a C++/Corba book for other references > (Vogel et al. C++ Programming with Corba). Oh geez, I just gotta get that one too. > I'd really like to see Loci move into more corba stuff. > Personally, I'd like to use corba and Loci to talk with the fast Sun > in my lab and get it to do my EST clustering for me. I'll write more > about CORBA in a second, though... Yeah that would be really sweet. > > >OpenDX also uses this approach. Actually, Brad, did you ever receive > >those rough Loci architecture drafts that Jeff and I hacked together? > I > >wouldn't mind making a wp doc from those and posting it to the group, > >once it gets the stamp of approval. Maybe I should add _that_ to _my_ > >TODO list. > > No, I haven't had the pleasure to scope these out yet. I'd be very > interested to see them, whenever they come together. Funny, I thought I cc'd them to you when Jeff and I were haggling over some of the details, I'll see if i can find them and resend them to ya. Regards, g. -- Gary Van Domselaar gary at bioinformatics.org http://www.bioinformatics.org/~gary ---------------------------------------------------- bioinformatics.org: The Open Lab http://www.bioinformatics.org/