Guido proposed to "move everything non-core out of the node". After much
discussion, we find that we have the following in common:
- FCPv2 should be high level to make writing clients easy.
- There should be *some* kind of clean interface between fproxy and the
node. Fproxy should operate on the same level as frost in the
layering.
- It probably makes sense to keep client-level code such as fproxy in a
separate source module. I am mostly in agreement here with Guido.
We disagree:
- I am of the view that fproxy should use a java interface class which
can either be provided by FCP or by running in the same VM as the
node, for performance and particularly memory usage.
- Guido is of the view that we should use a completely separate VM for
fproxy etc, and let the user switch it on and off easily.
- Guido thinks the node should have a basic HTTP interface for status
etc. I am not convinced.
- I came up with some ideas for a new HTTP container interface using
continuations a while back. This would have various advantages. The
fproxy module could then use this. It would be trivial to implement an
external container for fproxy to use if it was not running on the node
itself. So the fproxy module would use two interface classes:
- FreenetClient (implemented by FCPClient or InternalClient)
- WhackyHTTPHandler (implemented by an in-node container or an
external one; either way, it is possible to implement both blocking
and non-blocking containers; the former is easy, the latter isn't
but would give us the key UI gain that we could have an unlimited
number of parallel requests, if this is needed in future).
--
Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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