- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 01:27:08 -0500
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- cc: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore), discuss@apps.ietf.org
> But let me write it here quickly ... the application semantics are > equivalent to containment based software component models, which are > extremely generic and expressive. I disagree that they are 'generic'. They are indeed suitable for many kinds of applications, less suitable for others - for instance, where performance is an issue, where minimizing delay is more important than ensuring reliable delivery or detecting failure, where broadcast or multicast can usefully be employed, where synchronization between large numbers of processes are needed, etc. indeed, the primary virtue of software component systems seems to be that they narrowly *restrict* the kinds of interactions that may be employed. this is helpful if the interfaces are sufficient for your purposes, but they're not always sufficient. Keith
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