Hi Sven, That's a really really news. I look forward when we will reach a stable point for Ocean to use Zodiac on top of it. FYI, Ocean is a re-implementation of Sockets (Netnameresolver, IpAddress, ....).
Cheers, #Luc 2011/5/17 Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> > Hi, > > I would like to announce Zodiac, the project created in response to > > http://forum.world.st/WebClient-for-1-2-2-tt3485946.html#a3503921 > > according to the plan described in > > > http://forum.world.st/SSL-HTTPS-SecureSocketStream-SSLSession-for-Pharo-Squeak-and-other-Smalltalk-implementations-tc3517404.html#a3517719 > > You can follow the development by looking at the code in > > http://www.squeaksource.com/Zodiac.html > > Here is the first delivery: a new (binary) socket stream implementation. > > Warning: this is of course not yet code for general consumption, use the > source and the comments. This is a proof of concept. > > This package has no further dependencies and does not add anything to > system classes, it is thus safe to load. > > There are four stream classes, ZdcAbstractSocketStream, > ZdcSimpleSocketStream, ZdcOptimizedSocketStream and ZdcSocketStream, > inheriting from each other, adding successively more optimized > implementations of the standard Smalltalk stream primitives. There is one > helper class, ZdcIOBuffer to help in managing read and write buffers inside > the streams. The interface towards Socket is also quite small (i.e. only a > very small amount of the functionality in Socket is used). > > The 48 units tests as well as the functional test (see further) are all > green on Pharo 1.2.x and 1.3 as well as on Squeak 4.2. > > The functional test is the following: Zinc HTTP Components recently got a > its ZnNetworkingUtils class turned into a socket stream factory. By loading > the new package Zinc-Zodiac from the ZincHTTPComponents repository, you can > ask Zn to use the new socket stream implementation, like this: > > ZnNetworkingUtils default: ZnZodiacNetworkingUtils new. > > To reset, just do: > > ZnNetworkingUtils default: nil. > > The cool thing is: all of Zn's 151 unit tests, most doing actual HTTP > client and server interactions (some over the internet) succeed using the > new Zodiac socket stream implementation. > > Enjoy! > > Sven > > >
