Re: [Swarm-Support] Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Multi-Simulator Interface. ??

[Bill Northcott]

> > Scott Christley wrote
> >> I have been thinking about implementing distributed swarm capability
> >> with the help of GNUstep; that is why I have been working hard on the
> >> Swarm code these past weeks to get it to work with GNUstep.  GNUstep
> >> has a Distributed Objects (DO) system, which is of course based upon
> >> the Proxy design pattern; something that I think NeXT patented a long
> >> time.  I suppose there is a point that I'm doing GNUstep while you 
are
> >> doing Java, but still I'm paranoid about patents because Swarm is GPL
> >> code; I don't want to get SDG sued!
> >
> > As far as I can see. If you can add the GNUstep distributed opbjects
> > mechanism into Swarm on MacOS X, you have have also solved the problem
> > of
> > using Apple's Java, and Cocoa classes.

> I wouldn't go that far; there is still the issue of different objc
> runtimes.  For GNUstep, I just needed to remove Swarm's reliance on its
> internal runtime and use the stock one from GCC; they are still both
> the GNU objc runtime.

Surely, if the mechanism will pass messages between Objective-C and Java, 
it can pass messages between different Objective-C runtime stacks, or am I 
misunderstanding this.

Bill