4.3 Other Distributed Communication Methods
Sockets were not implemented in the demo projects. A possible
use was determined for them. Sockets are most useful for bulk
communication while CORBA does poorly. The best use would be for
large transfers, such as bitmaps, to be performed by connection
oriented sockets. CORBA would be used to transmit the location
of the bitmap to the CORBA client. The CORBA client would then
make a connection to a file server on the host with the bitmap
and retrieve the bitmap to the local machine. That way the CORBA
layer is not responsible for transmission of the bitmap data itself.
RPC was not implemented in the demo. CORBA used RPC as a transport
mechanism and supersedes it.
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