From: Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
Date: 2005-10-18T15:51:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Roxy 0.1 - Remote Proxy Objects w/ type & method signature impersonation and w/ remote block yields.

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Eric,
 I know that DRb currently supports features I don't. My goal is to have
them.
 There are "features" of DRb that I don't like. So, this is my replacement
project.
 j.

 On 10/17/05, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
>
> On Oct 17, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Jeff Wood wrote:
>
> > Hey folks.
> >
> > I know a number of people are/were interested in this.
> >
> > I've just requested the rubyforge project for Roxy.
> >
> > If you've watched the ruby-talk mailing list over the past few weeks,
> > I've been having a discussion with a number of people about
> > implementing clean proxy objects. Ones that don't hide the signatures
> > of the objects they are meant to impersonate.
> >
> > Anyways, I've built what I believe is version 0.1 of the project. It
> > even works with blocks (see the snippets below). And, since the object
> > impersonates the remote, irb's auto-completion works for remote
> > objects.
> >
> > So, as soon as the rubyforge folks validate the project, I will get
> > things posted for all to help make even better.
> >
> > ... until then, I'll simply wet your appetite with the following:
> >
> > -- SCRIPT: server.rb --
> >
> > require 'roxy'
> >
> > my_array =3D [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]
> > server =3D RoxyServer.new( "hostname", 4242, my_array )
> > trap( "INT" ) { server.stop_server }
> > server.start_server.join
> >
> > -- END: SCRIPT --
> >
> > -- SCRIPT: client.rb --
> >
> > require 'roxy'
> >
> > obj =3D Roxy.new( "hostname", 4242 )
> > obj.class #=3D> Array
> > obj.methods # returns list of Array instance methods
> > obj.map { |c| c*2 } #=3D> [ 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 ]
> >
> > -- END: SCRIPT --
> >
> > Let me know what you think. I'm getting things posted as quickly as
> > possible.
>
> Roxy looks like it reimplements a significant portion of DRb. Have
> you thought about making Roxy simply a DRb server? You'll save lots
> of code and can get auto-discovery for free.
>
> > Additional features I plan to implement include allowing for ANY
> > Socket object to act as medium for communication, that way people can
> > override it with whatever protocols they would like to use.
>
> DRb gives you this for free :)
>
> > A known limitation is that ONLY the first call of a chain (
> > obj.call.call.call ) will be executed remotely, the rest will be
> > executed locally on the result values.
>
> With DRb you can (supposing each #call returns obj) keep all calls
> remote through DRb::DRbUndumped.
>
> --
> Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://segment7.net
> FEC2 57F1 D465 EB15 5D6E 7C11 332A 551C 796C 9F04
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Jeff Wood

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