- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:56:36 -0500 (EST)
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
> >> What's also needed is a uniform means of > >> resolving an identifer. Neither CORBA nor COM > >> has that, but the Web has GET. > > I think this too is an oversimplification. In COM, all resource > identifiers are objects that implement the IMoniker interface. Among the > principle purposes of that interface is to provide a uniform means of > resolving the identifier. In COM terms, this is called "Binding", and it > results in an active (proxy to) the object being referenced. That object > may have been running in the network all along, or may have been brought > to life from some persistent state, e.g. in a file. I don't know whether > it's still true, but one of the first things that was done to make the Web > accessible to lots of COM tools was to create an URLMoniker > implementation, that would allow web resources to be activated by the > uniform resolution mechanisms that had been in COM all along. Of course, > under the covers, this often led sooner or later to an HTTP get. Interesting, thanks. I attempted to express my ignorance of COM in the first point, yet somehow failed to carry that over to the second point. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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