From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-06-06T19:31:40+09:00
Subject: Re: DRb, Rinda and Jini

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 05:42:30PM +0900, Aidan wrote:
> How could DRb be made language independent?

A while ago I modified an XML marshalling module and put the tuple
space behind a TCP server (DRb was not in the equation).  Objects
would be marshalled into XML, be associated to a tuple space
instruction (in, out, read), sent through the net, arrive to the
space, be unmarshalled and then hold the usual conversation with the
space, possibly with a tuple being sent back.

An extension to this was that objects sitting in the tuple space could
be proxied: method calls on the local proxy object were transparently
marshalled and sent to the space for the object to pick them up,
remote procedure call over the tuple space.

Since all the communication was done through XML, it only required
that the language the client is written in has got a module to marshal
objects in a format understandable by the server/space.

I did not release any code becase it was rough and limited and nobody
needed it.  If you want it just let me know.

Massimiliano