From: jm <jeffm@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T07:08:56+09:00
Subject: Re: rinda with other protocols

Not a bad idea except that I need to get other stuff done. The 
Rendezvous idea mentioned by sroberts sounds promising and except that 
the servers are linux based, but it may work with zero conf.

It just seems that in an era of open standards too many people are 
still writing language specific protocols. Soap looked promising as a 
way to avoid this. Letting me write in ruby yet let others develop, 
where I currently work, to use cold fusion for their stuff. This has 
worked well for some of the things done so far but I can foresee a 
problem if I wish to move things around or have more than one machine 
offering a service. I was hoping to find a location service that was a 
cross platform standard. It seems the java guys have about 20 different 
ways of doing this and every one else has their own way as well.

Jeff.

On 19/01/2005, at 4:08 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:

> On 18 Jan 2005, at 20:56, jm wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to get rinda to work (simply) with protocols other 
>> drb? eg, soap and beep.
>
> Rinda::Ring is small enough that you could easily rewrite it, since 
> its all of 164 lines.
>
>> Just have some insane ideas I'd like to play with. If there is an 
>> alternative that works with other languages as well please let me 
>> know. The main requirement is being able to locate services in an 
>> automated language independent manner.
>
> Keep in mind that Rinda::Ring only works on a local subnet, since it 
> uses UDP broadcasts to locate services.
>
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