From: Tobias DiPasquale <anany@...>
Date: 2001-12-11T21:19:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28205] Re: Design question: remote UIs and distributed objects

This is exactly what TupleSpaces are for. Please check them out. 
TupleSpace capability is included with dRuby, which can be found here:

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=druby+-+distributed+ruby

I am not sure about the performance considerations in using TupleSpaces, 
but it's at least worth a shot, as it's very easy to use and does 
exactly what you need. Hope this helps.

Massimiliano Mirra wrote:

> [ruby-talk:28163] Design question: remote UIs and distributed objects
> I am toying with the idea of writing a tiny drawing program that acts
> as a server and is accessible by remote user interfaces.
> 
> The engine/server should be written in Ruby.  I'd rather use
> distributed objects than create a whole communication protocol from
> the ground up.  I'd also rather not to enforce the choice of language
> for client applications (which leaves out drb).
> 
> AFAIK the players in this arena are CORBA, XML-RPC and SOAP.  Of these
> I have only tried XML-RPC and it is wonderfully easy, but I see no
> chance of passing around whole objects like in drb (one could marshal
> them of course, but would defeat the language independence).  I gather
> that CORBA is far from easy or even moderately difficult, so I'm going
> checking SOAP.
> 
> My question: does this really deserve study or is it a lost cause?  Is
> there any chance to send around anything more complex than hashes and
> arrays?  And, above all, is performance any close to being acceptable
> for the feedback requirements of a user interface or would it be like
> telnetting over a 2400bps connection?
> 
> Massimiliano
> 



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