Having a huge application developed under Windows, and trusting the multi platform capabilities of VisualWorks, you decide to deliver on Linux, and sell to customer. Then, you discover that connecting AS400 DB2 using ODBC on Linux is not without problems. Or, even worse, it may be something without solutions. But the customer already paid for it. Time is scarce and Opentalk is here, so, why not just remote the database connection.
This talk is about how easy it was to start, the problems encountered, and the changes needed when remoting part of an application that was not designed in a component-based way. All done thanks to Opentalk.
Once the basic infrastructure was built and a minimum of knowledge was acquired several other components, and also other applications, suddenly became candidates for remoting pieces. The talk will also discuss some of these.