[Qt-interest] Distributed and adaptive components support in Qt

[Sandro Andrade]

Hi everyone,

I'm right now wondering about the existence of some facilities to perform
distributed computation by using Qt which would not require the implementation
of all low level details (socket creation, parameters marshalling, name service
registration, component instantiation and connections, instance
pooling, etc) involved in this area.

I found some old discussion about this (Qt Component Model - QCOM) in
list archives but I think it wasn't continued.
My goal is to provide a infra-structure for transparent remote method
invocation, distributed deployment (instantiation)
of components and some support for run-time adaptation, by means of
components creation, removal, and reconfiguration,
connections replacement and maybe some component repository.

This is part of my PhD project and I've been using CIAO (CORBA
Component Model implementation) so far, but
adaptation features were removed due do standard compliance.

Any work been done in this direction ? Is this worthy for Qt
developers ? I think some demand may already be found
in the range of Qt applications.

Thanks in advance,
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Sandro Santos Andrade
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