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From: Hasko Heinecke <hasko@heeg.de>
Subject: Re: Smalltalk Orbing and Scaling
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To: John Parello <jparello@avestatech.com>
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John Parello wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tried to use the various smalltalk ORBs on a large scale.
> I'm looking to have a large number of objects distributed over an
> Enterprise.
> 
> I'm wresling with the idea of sending copies of the objects (they're
> small) to the clients for display and having a updates publishe via
> the Event Services. I tried using Parc Places Semantic and
> Presentation metaphor but I have doubts as to whether or not this will
> scale?
> 
> Has anyone used the smalltalk Event services for high volume traffic?
> 
> Also any opions on the lesser of the evils among Smalltalk Orb vendors
> (ParcPlace, Orbix, DNS)?
> 
> ...John

Take a look at GemStone's GemORB:

	http://www.gemstone.com/Products/gorb.htm

Regards,

Hasko
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