[Cps4] Ice Age

[Tiry]

Hi,

I just installed Ice and the python binding.
Setup ran allmost fine.

I also take a look at the first hundred pages of the hudge PDF doc.
I must say that I am pretty impressed by what ICE claims to provide.
After having work a lot with DCOM and a couple of weeks with CORBA, the
way ICE is presented is quite refreshing. It also look like a lot of
missing features in common ORB have been integrated inside the ICE
framework.

So, I would be very happy if we make ICE part of CPS4.

But.

Even if ICE looks fine and clean, deploying a ORB architecture allways
need some work.
So using ICE just for bridging CPS and Jack Rabbit looks to me quite
overkill.

But if we consider ICE in a broader approche, it could be interessting :
 - Make a true language independant remote interface for CPS
   -> Replace RemoteControler with an ICE interface
     -> Have a true Component based API
     -> Expose CPS Events
 - Use ICE to have a connected/bi-directionnal connection between CPS
and Apogee
 - Use ICE and IceBox to build a simple extension framework so that
builing simples extensions to CPS (Event Listeners, Injectors, Builders)
can be done in any languages
 - Expose a Java compatible remote interface for intragation with
existing portals and portlets

Just thinking ...

Tiry