So right now things are a-little messy with client apps. Some talk to
the node using Freenet's encrypted protocol, some use FCP, some
are plugins for the node, and others use XML-RPC.
I think that some standardization is in-order. The Whiterose approach
is that the node itself speaks two protocols, the encrypted inter-node
protocol, and FCP. XML-RPC talks to the node via FCP, as does any
command-line clients or HTTP proxy. This is attractively simple.
Of course, it is, in some ways, desirable with a Java implementation to
facilitate plugins, since it saves you the overhead of multiple VMs.
One approach to this would be to have a plugin interface which expose
methods to the plugin that map directly to FCP operations. This saves
the cost of a local TCP connection, and all of the parsing that goes on
at both ends with FCP. Ideally this interface would be the same as a
Java FCP library that can be used by external programs (for
consistency).
Thoughts?
Ian.
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