Hi,
I think this could be a very interesting project.
There has been posts regarding a mono app server and I believe this could help achieve that goal.
Sorry JXTA is a p2p development framework it is not an application server.
I think I have read somewhere that the JBOSS app server uses JXTA to talk to each of the component, one of them been the distributed object transaction support. So if we could be able to talk to this component through JXTA we could have transaction in mono, and later on maybe the ServicedComponents could use this to implement the namespace.
As such (but I could be wrong) I believe it is JMX, J2EE and JMS that is used within JBoss and not as far as I am aware JXTA (jeez there are too many J's in that last statement)
Don't know if this is such a wild idea, but I think I remenber someone saying that we could obteain transaction support by using a java app server, and this could maybe simplify that task.
However the idea of anyone working on an application server would be a definite plus, especially as well lack anything that give us a real *winning platform over windows at the moment, perhaps starting with the XSP server, filling in the blanks in System.EnterpriseServices, a decent message queuing system and other bits of infrastructure can help bring this up to scratch.
Regards, Luis
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gregory Bowyer Sent: 19 November 2004 13:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mono-list] Re: Mono / C# JXTA port
Battermann, Joerg wrote:
Gregory,
I am definetly interested - let me know what I can do / what kind of help you need.
Mainly grunt porting work from the Java source code, the majority of which I cant seem being too bad, I have converted the old JXTA version (Java 2.1) with Microsoft's JLCA tool, I will start soon on the new 2.3 version.
The difficult bits as far as I can see are : 1) Changing the event model - The Java API uses the Java EventObject system this will need to be redone with delegates
2) Java specifics, namely parts of the security model, use of reflection AWT dialogs etc
3) Redefining how exceptions are handled - Whilst there is a lot of java style exception wrapping I personally think we need to find the bottom exception wrapper in a chain and only re-wrap where it makes sense (we are not trying to please the compiler after all)
4) As I am working through the JLCA converted sources I am changing the namespaces and method names to be more .net style so for example package net.JXTA.access becomes namespace Jxta.Access and camelCase becomes FullCase. This has the bonus of letting me know which files I have worked on as I am a believer in the idea that code I haven't touched in two weeks might as well be new.
5) Eventually the development of higher level code, some demo apps etc - It would be nice to leverage a simple model using attributes for the development of JXTA services as well as some of the java ideas such as having a JxtaSocket. The JxtaSocket could be difficult as I believe that the .net class namespace is sealed to its own .dll and cant be extended with a third party dll but I could be horrifically wrong.
Basically I am throwing this open for anyone to help so any commits to CVS at the moment are fine, when I have converted java-JXTA-2.,3 with JLCA I will submit the "grunt" work API to CVS.
Best regards / MfG, -- Joerg Battermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justBE.com
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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Bowyer Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mono-list] Mono / C# JXTA port
I am currently starting and working on porting the JXTA library to .net, Yes I am aware that the same deal can be done with IKVM but in due time it would be nice to take advantage of C# features (namely attributes and delegates) in JXTA. I hope that the c# impl can be compatible with all other implementations (it should be) and a reasonable performer. This port is done because imho JXTA should be on every major dev platform it it want to succeed.
Anyone willing to pitch-in a hand or lend advice ????
The project is in its initial stages at jxta4net.jxta.org
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