Customer vs Company

[plussier at mindspring.com]

In a message dated: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 15:32:07 BST
"Alaric B. Snell" said:

>On Monday 07 April 2003 15:19, plussier at mindspring.com wrote:

>> I also ran across this entry on the OpenLDAP FAQ-O-Matic:
>>
>> 	http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/378.html
[...snip...]
>> I have no idea whether what they say is valid or not.
>
>Yeah, but it's all get-aroundable.

Well, given enough incentive and time, pretty much anthing is 
'get-aroundable', right :)

>> And, can this work across the network by other
>> systems on which GnuCash is not running?
>
>In theory, yes; I'm not sure if any issues would arise due to how Gnome does 
>CORBA. As far as I can tell it runs a corba registry that is somehow 
>associated with your login session (stored in an X atom? In a file in your 
>home directory?) for object lookup, but you could of course override this and 
>have an option to use a different registry.
>
>But the underlying protocol runs over IP, yes!

Hmmm, okay, it's beginning to sound plausible at least :)

>> I ask, because I have no idea what the answers are, since I know next
>> to nothing about CORBA.
>
>CORBA quick cheat sheet:

Thanks for this, a big help (though I can't help but thinking that 
this sounds an awful lot like SunRPC :)

>Under my Debian system, all the GNOME IDL files are under /usr/share/idl. 
>Check out gnome-pim.idl! It defines vCard as CORBA structs then an interface 
>for a really primitive address book server:
[...snip...]
>
>That could probably be extended to get subsets of records according to search 
>criteria.
>
>I've no idea which Gnome packages implement or use this interface, however!

I'm going to guess that Evo might and that the Gnome Addressbook 
probably does as well.  'gtt' might as well, I don't know.  Linas, 
did you CORBA-ize 'gtt' ?


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