+1. Better out of the box experience. Also, benchmarks. Why is river better?
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On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Gregg Wonderly <gregg...@gmail.com> wrote: > The important thing for me, is to provided simple APIs. The basics of > what I am talking about are visible in my startnow project which has been > out on java.net for about 15years now. Some of that is rough and > unfinished work. But the basics are, I think you should be able to start a > service like > > public class MyApplication extends PersistentJiniService { > public static void main(string args) { > new MyApplication(args).startService(); > } > > public MyApplication(args) { > super(args); > } > } > > The implication is that everything is in your configuration, and the > default configuration should be a nice set of reasonable defaults which > include things like a default port for the services endpoint, which we > should register and advertise in the well known service names list. That > would help with firewall rule support. For more than one service/endpoint, > we should have an automatic recognition of more than one service being > started in a JVM, and we should be able to provide the "next" port to use > through a method in PersistentJiniService which could be overridden to > return different ports. > > There are lots of "choices" which don't add value to the new user > experience. It would be best to make reasonable defaults for the average > user who would put a service up for testing. > > The other item would be to provide a new Jeri InvocationLayerFactory and > Endpoint which would allow a single port to be used for all inbound > services. The basic idea is that the InvocationLayerFactory construction > would provide some kind of mechanism for services to be registered and > authentication and everything would just work for multiple services on the > same endpoint. > > Think about how HTTP routing works in most modern HTTP services. The user > might use Annotations or something to mark the service entry points and we > would then be able to use that information to cause the > InvocationLayerFactory to call out to the correct class and method. > > We really should look at creating an HTTP endpoint with the ability to use > POST as an inbound invocation that would deliver a JSON message to the > function bound to that HTTP request. This would allow small, lightweight > restful services to be created without a large complex web server > underneath it. > > I think that this would make Jini on Raspberry Pi particularly alluring. > > Gregg Wonderly > > > > On Apr 8, 2015, at 9:12 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: > > > > Maybe it would be possible to put one or more of the richer functions in > an example? That would let us get practical experience before committing to > an API change. > > > > Patricia > > > > On 4/8/2015 6:47 PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote: > >> I think that it could be beneficial, to provide code examples, in > >> some form that do the two different things that are possible to make > >> this less visible. First, show the reader how to use an exit hook in > >> the tutorial to see the service registration disappear. Second, show > >> them how to use the lease timeout value to make the change happen > >> automatically for the case of a network split or network card or > >> computer failure that would keep the exit hook from ever generating > >> network traffic to cancel the lease. > >> > >> I still feel that we actually need new APIs that operate at a bit > >> higher level and provide all of these things as parameters to richer > >> functions. > >> > >> Gregg Wonderly > >> > >>> On Apr 6, 2015, at 8:56 PM, Greg Trasuk <tras...@stratuscom.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> Hi all: > >>> > >>> I updated the tutorial to include the discussion below in the > >>> “hello-service” module. ‘svn up’ should bring it down to your > >>> local machine. I haven’t yet integrated Patricia’s formatting > >>> suggestions, mainly because I have to dig in to Maven’s site > >>> command a bit to include the correct css, but I’ll do that before > >>> we release. > >>> > >>> Any feedback is greatly appreciated. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Greg Trasuk > >>> > >>> On Apr 6, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Greg Trasuk <tras...@stratuscom.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Hi Dan: > >>>> > >>>> Thanks for the great feedback. > >>>> > >>>> I’m pretty sure you already know this, Dan, since you’re a > >>>> long-time Jini user, but let me explain for the newer folks and > >>>> the archives. This is a case where what you’re seeing is the > >>>> expected behaviour. When the service registers itself with > >>>> Reggie, it takes out a lease on the registration. That lease is > >>>> usually renewed periodically by the service’s JoinManager (that > >>>> isn’t quite the whole story, but it’ll do for now). When you > >>>> kill the service unexpectedly with ctrl-c, the service doesn’t > >>>> de-register itself, however the lease eventually runs out (now > >>>> that it’s not being renewed by the service) and then the > >>>> registration expires, allowing Reggie to reclaim its resources > >>>> and notify any registrar listeners. > >>>> > >>>> It would be possible to register a vm shutdown hook to > >>>> de-register the service before the vm exits, but in this case I > >>>> think it’s actually better to leave it out, since it demonstrates > >>>> nicely that a dead service (or at least a dead JoinManager) > >>>> eventually gets dropped from the registrar. > >>>> > >>>> You said the duplicate service instances “worked”, in that you > >>>> can show info and browse the service, but of course, you’re > >>>> really just looking at the information that’s in the registry - > >>>> the registrar and service browser don’t actually contact the > >>>> service. Reggie has no knowledge of the “liveness” of the > >>>> service, and doesn’t attempt to do any “health check”. > >>>> > >>>> In fact, it’s a common misconception that if the service renews > >>>> the lease, it must be “live”. This turns out to be false for > >>>> many reasons. (1) The service could have delegated its lease > >>>> renewals to a different service. (2) There’s no guarantee that > >>>> failure of the actual service thread would also cause failure of > >>>> the lease renewal thread, even if they are in the same process > >>>> (embedded programmers might recognize this as being similar to > >>>> the “resetting the watchdog in a timer-triggered interrupt > >>>> service routine” problem). (3) Even if there were a health check > >>>> task, the service could fail in the instant just after the health > >>>> check. The most a health check, monitor or heartbeat can do is > >>>> place a limit on how long it takes to find out a service has > >>>> failed. The only way to say with certainty that a service > >>>> “works” is to attempt to use it. > >>>> > >>>> The lease is purely for the convenience of the registrar (or > >>>> generically, the service granting the lease). If ever the lease > >>>> is not renewed, the landlord can go ahead and reclaim whatever > >>>> resources were dedicated to the lease. In the case of Reggie, if > >>>> the lease isn’t renewed, Reggie drops the registration. So > >>>> there’s little risk of “stuck registrations”. And since the > >>>> lease can be renewed, there’s no need for any kind of extended > >>>> default timeout. > >>>> > >>>> So, I think I’ll put most of the above explanation into the > >>>> tutorial, unless anyone has other thoughts. > >>>> > >>>> Cheers, > >>>> > >>>> Greg Trasuk > >>>> > >>>> On Apr 6, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Dan Rollo <danro...@gmail.com> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hi Greg, > >>>>> > >>>>> I finally took some time to try this out. It really looks great > >>>>> to me! > >>>>> > >>>>> I noticed one minor thing that I thought might confuse users: > >>>>> While going through tutorial steps, I decided to stop (via > >>>>> cntrl+c) are restart the hello-service a couple times. This > >>>>> resulted in the service being shown multiple times in the > >>>>> service browser (screenshot attached). It appeared all the > >>>>> duplicate instances in the browser “worked” (I could “show > >>>>> info” and “browse service” on all of them). Eventually, the > >>>>> duplicate registrations “cleaned up” and I was left with just > >>>>> one. I’m not sure how best to avoid confusion about this > >>>>> situation. Would more doc about “why”/“how” that works just > >>>>> complicate things? Is there any sort of “force lease check” to > >>>>> do in the browser that could clear up the duplicates sooner? > >>>>> (And if so, would that be worth noting in the tutorial?). So > >>>>> basically, not sure this is a “problem”, but thought I’d ask… > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks! Dan > >>>>> > >>>>> <revier-examples-RepeatedService.png> > >>>> > >>> > >> > >
