Hi Trustin
On 24.12.2005, at 03:15, Trustin Lee wrote:
Hi Simon,
2005/12/24, Simon Raess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: We are using BEEP in an
application (see http://beepcore.org/).
Unfortunately, the BEEP library we use proved to be unstable and the
development of it seems very slow. So naturally, I'm looking for
alternatives (that's were Mina comes into play). The core building
blocks of BEEP fit our application quite well (that's one reason we'd
like to keep the BEEP foundation).
BEEP allows to open several 'channels' over one 'session' (in the TCP
mapping of BEEP this results in multiple channels beeing multiplexed
over one single TCP connection). For each channel, there is a so
called 'profile', which specifies the messages exchanged over a
channel. The profile used on the first channel (channel 0) defines
messages used to create and close channels.
As far as I can tell, there is no such thing as channels in Mina. I
guess it would be possible to implement BEEP on top of Mina. Has ever
anybody thought about doing so? Or would that be a 'stupid
idea' (tm)? Any ideas?
It looks like BEEP is a protocol framework which defines core
message formats and some communication procedure, and you can build
your own protocol on top of it. Right?
Yes, exactly.
BEEP is definitely an interesting idea, and it will make protocol
implementation much easier once it is implemented. For now, MINA
doesn't provide BEEP provider yet. But we're very interested with
it. It can even bear SOAP messages.
But we don't have much human resource for now to implement BEEP and
provide it out-of-the-box unfortunately. We might start on it
after MINA 1.0 is released. Of course, any contribution is welcome.
We might give it a try...
Simon
