Noel,
You can force the jSLP solution to always start up as a UA/SA. ie. don't
start as a daemon. That way, you'd never have a daemon running for the scope
you are in and so would fall back to multicast.
Would that work for you?
cheers,
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Noel Grandin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 May 2008 09:50
To: Hird Matthew
Cc: 'openslp-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: Re: [Openslp-users] java library still active?
Hi Matt
It's not so much about scalability of no_of_applications or application_size
but rather scalability of my_available_support_time :-)
I never fully control the places where my applications are installed, and
customers have a bad habit of accidentally uninstalling or turning off any
additional system services I may install, so I don't like relying on them if
I can avoid it.
Which pretty much rules out a standalone SLP system daemon.
And I'm pretty much guaranteed to be sharing the system with some other
applications that I don't own that are also going to be implementing my
service-locator protocol, and I really hate getting into a situation where
someone else's application can disrupt my application.
Which pretty much rules out running the SLP deamon process inside the first
application that starts up.
So I'm going to implement my own variant of SLP that uses pure multicast to
do the service requests, and dynamic unicast server ports for the replies.
Not as scalable as SLP, but it's good enough for my purposes.
Regards, Noel.
Hird Matthew wrote:
Hi Noel,
How many apps are we talking about here? We've quite a bit of experience now
using OpenSLP with jSLP for both C++ and Java apps. Our system is very large
so we have massive scalability.
I'm pretty sure there must be a way to do what you want with SLP.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Noel Grandin [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
Sent: 21 May 2008 08:55
To: Hird Matthew
Cc: ' openslp-users@lists.sourceforge.net
<mailto:openslp-users@lists.sourceforge.net> '
Subject: Re: [Openslp-users] java library still active?
Hi Matt
Thanks for all your help.
I want my application to run standalone, with as few dependencies on
external services as possible.
Installing extra system services is a no-no because it increases the
likelihood of a customer accidentally breaking the configuration.
Bummer. I'm going to have to implement my own protocol to do this.
I know it won't scale as well as SLP, but I'm happy to trade off some extra
network traffic for increased application reliability.
Regards, Noel.
Hird Matthew wrote:
Noel,
Why don't you run the OpenSLP solution as a daemon and let your java apps
run as UAs? That's what we do.
cheers,
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Noel Grandin [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
Sent: 20 May 2008 11:13
To: Morrell Richard
Cc: ' openslp-users@lists.sourceforge.net
<mailto:openslp-users@lists.sourceforge.net> '
Subject: Re: [Openslp-users] java library still active?
Hi Richard
Aah, I see from reading the spec that SLP uses both multicast and
unicast messages. Which is why only one application on a machine can be
"the daemon".
Is there any way to force an SLP client into a mode where it only works
with multicast i.e. where every application runs its own daemon?
This should be fine since multiple applications on the same machine can
bind to the same multicast port.
It really is a deal-breaker for me if I end up with inter-application
dependencies, and I'd prefer not to invent my own protocol.
Am I missing something?
Regards, Noel.
Morrell Richard wrote:
No, only one daemon can run on any single machine, as it has to bind to
the
SLP port (427).
The jSLP implementation tries to bind to port 427 when it starts up, and
if
it can't do so, just acts as a UA. Hence, the first Java app that runs on
a
machine sets itself up as a daemon, and the rest run as UAs. Note that,
on
Unix machines, an app must be running as root to be able to bind to port
427.
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