Thanks for your response. I think my question should have been: "What else except web services can you do with it"? Eg distributed maps,caches etc. and how could / would I prrof the feasability or performance of those.
I think that Gelertner may not have had exactly web services in mind when he first described LINDA & Tuple Spaces. So I look for applications that are _not_ web services together with easily accessible demonstrators. I once read that calculating atom orbital shapes or so and you would need an eight year study and atom physics to even code the demonstrator. I think I look for something more close to the "ordinary world". By the way: your comment conc Google and AWS I do not think that they have multicast enabled anywhere (for themselves), also multicast is not a feature that would be accessible to guest systems on the EC2 cloud. --Joerg On Jan 5, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Dan Creswell wrote: > River is basically an infrastructure for building service oriented systems. > > What can you build with a service oriented system? Pretty much anything. > > So what would the "most appealing use cases" be? Anything. > > Some things it does more naturally than others: Works well in Java, > less so with other languages. Of course that doesn't preclude doing a > non-Java front end and having it talk to Java and Jini services at the > back via RESTful interfaces and such. There are also some other means > (Surrogate) for working around this problem. > > It has a nice dynamic lookup mechanism so long as you have multicast > available in your networks. The likes of Amazon and Google do, for > some reason many smaller concerns don't. > > A standard 3-tier architecture with display, business logic and shared > database storage really doesn't fit well but then it wouldn't qualify > as an SOA so no surprise. > > If you have something more specific in mind, I can give you more > specific commentary but your question is so generic, so open, writing > anything with detail beyond the most superficial is impossible. Kinda > like "What's the performance of x?", lacking context. > > Hope that helps, > > Dan. > > On 4 January 2013 23:56, Joerg Fritsch <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> what are currently the most appealing use cases for River? What are the best >> deminstrators that do show that River is what the world needs :D ? >> >> --Joerg >>
