Re: AW: D-BUS versus GDOMAP (Was: D-BUS equivalent)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 31 Aug 2004, at 12:36, MJ Ray wrote:

> On 2004-08-31 11:38:30 +0100 Richard Frith-Macdonald 
> <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On 31 Aug 2004, at 11:08, MJ Ray wrote:
> > > That's not very helpful. It ranks alongside "STFW" and "RTFM".
> > I think that's a little unfair ... as the design/rationale is 
> > documented near the front of gdomap.h
> > His email may have been very terse, but it *was* accurate [...]
>
> Accurate but about as incomplete as humanly possible, rather like 
> answering a hungry man who asks "where can I find food?" with "on a 
> farm". Even pointing to gdomap.h would have been better. I think I'd 
> already looked through the source a bit by that point and found little 
> helpful in it. I'm not used to .h files containing more than the man 
> pages or class docs.

I think it's quite common ... but I guess it depends on your background.

> > The distributed objects mechanism is described reasonably in the NeXT 
> > documentation and also in the class documentation, though an overview 
> > really has to be inferred from the class documentation.
>
> Which NeXT documentation and which classes deal with this? I already 
> didn't find it in the OpenStep specification, although some pages seem 
> to be missing from the copy I'm using.

NEXTSTEP general reference volume2  chapter6 (not sure if/where it's 
available online).
The core classes are NSPort, NSConnection.
Other more recently exposed/documented classes are NSDistantObject, 
NSPortCoder, NSPortNameServer, NSSocketPort, NSMessagePort