Peter Drayton, Simon Fell and I are proud to announce a set of open source .NET Remoting projects. We have planned this for some time now and after Simon created the CVS repository last week, I finally got the time to create a web site about them.
http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/projects We have currently implemented a JabberChannel which allows .NET Remoting messages to be transferred via the Jabber protocol [1] and an SMTP/POP3-channel which uses standard internet email to transport the requests and responses. Both channels come with full source code, sample clients and servers and are covered by a very liberal open source license. One of the reason for kicking this off right now is that we want to provide a collaborative environment for remoting-related developments. At the current time we are about to implement the following (parts of them will be available in the CVS in a week or two) * An XML-RPC Formatter for .NET Remoting * A bidirectional TCPChannel which avoids the problems with callbacks, events and sponsors which are used from clients behind NATs or firewalls. * A caching channelsink (based on the idea from [2]) * A framework for the development of feature complete custom channels * An MSN Messenger channel Further ideas which we think about are * A document/literal encoding SOAP formatter * A DIME/TCPChannel * and finally, an implementation of the GXA-specs (WS-Routing, WS-Security) This mail is also a call for action! If you already implemented channels or sinks or have some great ideas about doing so, please don't hesitate to contact me privately or - even better - post them to the project discussion forum at [3]. Also please check [4] before submitting any source code to this project as we definitely don't want to infringe of any existing copyrights. Thanks for your support. Please email your comments and questions off-list or post them at [3]! Happy coding, -Ingo [1] www.jabber.org [2] http://discuss.develop.com/archives/wa.exe?A2=ind0203E&L=DOTNET&P=R3649 [3] http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=12 [4] http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/projects/license.asp You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
