This is great to know, thanks Raymond.  A big sigh of relief from my team
just as we're about to go more into our investigation.

-a-


On 2/22/10 3:09 PM, "Raymond Feng" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The in-vm invocations we talk about here is for the optimizations over
> remotable interfaces between components co-located on the same JVM.
> 
> In 1.6, we do the following for components running within the same node with
> binding.sca.
> 
> 1) For local interfaces, we always do local in-vm invocation without copying
> data.
> 2) For remotable interfaces, if "allowsPassByReference" flag is true, we do
> local in-vm invocations without copying data.
> 3) For remotable interfaces, if "allowsPassByReference" flag is false
> (default), we do local in-vm invocations by copying data to enforce
> pass-by-value.
> 
> For cross-node invocations, we use a protocol stack (web service in
> Tuscany).
> 
> Thanks,
> Raymond
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Albert Tsang" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 2:22 PM
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [2.x] In-VM invocation between components
> 
>> Raymond,
>> 
>> We're piloting 1.6 right now and from what I read from your book...
>> 
>> The default sca binding for components that are Java implementations will
>> use method invocation against a Java proxy since it doesn't know whether
>> or
>> not the component is within the same JVM.
>> We're worried about the overhead for this.  Can you comment on detailing
>> what it's doing exactly? Ideally we would like in-JVM invocations be to as
>> seamless as possible once dependencies and runtime are loaded at startup.
>> 
>> -a-
>> 
>> 
>> On 2/22/10 9:44 AM, "Raymond Feng" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes, I'm thinking of adding a few methods to InterfaceContractMapper to
>>> tell
>>> if "pass-by-reference" is supported (no data copy is required) between
>>> the
>>> source and target operation.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Raymond
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Simon Laws" <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 5:10 AM
>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: [2.x] In-VM invocation between components
>>> 
>>>> Assuming that you have established that the endpoint and endpoint
>>>> reference are in the same JVM and the interface is remotable we still
>>>> need to establish whether the message is passing across a classloader
>>>> boundary don't we? In which case and extra bit of work is required.
>>>> 
>>>> Simon
>>> 
>> 

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