From: shinohara.shunichi@...
Date: 2006-09-01T15:21:49+09:00
Subject: [ANN] AP4R, Asynchronous Processing for Ruby, initial release


We are pleased to announce the FIRST release of AP4R.

    http://rubyforge.org/projects/ap4r/
    

== DESCRIPTION

AP4R, Asynchronous Processing for Ruby, is the implementation of 
reliable asynchronous message processing. It provides message 
queuing, and message dispatching.

Using asynchronous processing, we can cut down turn-around-time 
of web applications by queuing, or can utilize more machine power 
by load-balancing.

Also AP4R nicely ties with your Ruby on Rails applications.
See HelloWorld sample application from rubyforge.

== INSTALLATION

sudo gem install ap4r

== FEATURES

* Business logics can be implemented as simple Web applications,
  or ruby code, whether it's called asynchronously or synchronously.

* Asynchronous messaging are reliable by RDBMS persistence (now 
  MySQL only) or file persistence.

* Load balancing over multiple AP4R processes on single/multiple servers 
  is supported.

* Asynchronous processes are called via various protocols, such 
  as XML-RPC, SOAP, HTTP PUT, and more. (now implemented just as XML-RPC) 

== CHANGES

This is the first release!

== ACKNOWLEDGMENT

K.K. and S.S. are on the payroll of Future System Consulting Corp. Japan.

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Kato, Kiwamu          kato.kiwamu@future.co.jp
Shinohara, Shunichi   shinohara.shunichi@future.co.jp


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SHINOHARA, Shun'ichi
  Future System Consulting, Corp.
    3-28-13 Shibuya Shibuya-Ku
    Tokyo, JAPAN  (ZIP 150-0002)
  shinohara.shunichi@future.co.jp