Do We Need Another OO RPC Mechanism?

Paul68 queries: "I am looking for an RPC mechanism for a project. Granted, there are many to choose from, yet there seem none that meet my requirements! When one has toyed with the requirements the solution generaly becomes obvious. So, yeah sure, I can set out and create the next RPC mechanism, but it is a lot of hassle. But does the world need yet another OORPC, or have I simply not looked in the right corners?"

"My requirements are:

1. object oriented
2. extensible
3. platform independent
4. supports signatures for integrity and sender checking
5. supports privacy of the message contents (i.e. encryption)
6. time sensitive: I should be able to detect a dead server and do failover while the user is waiting for the response
7. bandwidth efficient, as I am looking to deploy it in wireless environments

Now #1-3 are no problem, #4 and #5 can be found, and #7 rules out anything XML-based. #6 seems to be the killer, as this rules out anything over TCP, and at that point the list gets pretty short.

Does anyone have any options that I may have missed?"

Comments

ICE?

[AtrN]

Have you looked at ICE? The developers are long time CORBA gurus who set out to fix some of CORBA's problems. It looks quite promising but then I haven't used it in anger.

Take a look at Ice

[be-fan]

You can find Ice at this page. From what I've seen, it's everything CORBA should have been, and easy to use to boot!