Exactly, for this part it's all about bytes on a wire :) : just sending/receiving serialized objects over a stream socket: consumers will be pulling data from producers in a synchronous way. I could use a simple stream socket for that, but I want to wrap data in messages to keep control over that part and probably add buffering at some layers.
There will be no method invocations, just some control/monitor process from outside. Never heard about Squeak ELib but very interesting, thank you Pierce! Regards, Alain Le 11/10/2014 03:21, Pierce Ng a écrit :
Whether using Zinc's websockets or some C library wrapper, you are still slinging serialized Smalltalk objects ie plain old bytes over the wire, no? I am guessing that RST provides synchronous remote method invocation. I recall there was a remote messaging prototype/concept based on promises developed in Squeak... ah, Squeak-Elib, here: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6011. Is your current use case mostly synchronous or asynchronous? Pierce
