From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2002-06-06T23:57:20+09:00
Subject: Re: DRb, Rinda and Jini

On Thursday 06 June 2002 01:42 am, Aidan wrote:
> Is anyone interested in implementing some of the "missing
> components" above (if indeed they are missing)?

Perhaps. I need to make a Ruby/Squeak/possibly Perl system that can do 
simple communications of relatively simple objects (no object 
references).

My strategy was going to be to come up with a standard for marshalling 
this kind of data. I've done it before with Smalltalk, and it's 
pretty simple to do.

Or one could use the SOAP marshalling.

I've been looking at Spread (http://www.spread.org), which could 
provide the multicast/reliable communications plumbing for such a 
thing. There are a couple of Ruby Spread modules already available 
(presumably calling the C API, though it wouldn't be too hard to 
translate the Java implementation into Ruby).

> How could DRb be made language independent?

By standardizing on a marshalling scheme?

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