Hi Shiva,

Thanks a lot for the comments..The points you made are of great help.

Regards,
Altaf

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Balasubramanyam, Shivakumar <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  Altaf,
>
> I looked at SCA three months ago and spend couple of weekends (night-outs
> actually).
>
> SCA will be great solution going forward where applications that are
> written in C++ needs to work in multiple environments (consumers could be
> C++ or Java) and act as a container of any sorts.
>
> Issue is that, the current SCA-native code does not cut it. My evaluation
> was below,
>
> Dislikes:
> 1. usage of namespaces and exceptions are not supported in all embedded
> platforms.[not a concern on server side]
> 2. I really don't like the existing approach which requires the marshalling
> of operation arguments in the Proxy/Wrapper to an intermediate
> ParamterTypes. Also, the code is duplicated in DataObject
>     This can be achieved by using something like,
> map<"datatype_stringname", void* data> that can be passed to the model to be
> serialized. Even better, using boost::any will allow genericity and
>     I would follow the concept of pushing the service binding information
> out of stub/wrapper just like the transport or RPC modules.
> 3. Removing dependency on any fixed parsing technology (xml in this case)
> 4. No need for dynamic type identification over the wire format [which is
> actually a great feature on the luxury platforms]
> 5. For C++ only environment, concept of domain, composite, components is an
> overload.
> 6. Also, for CPPImplementation, the wrapper code does not need to make this
> intermediate conversion of types and RPC invocations (Please let me know if
> I am wrong). Cuz, the real implementation already supports function
> descriptions. Well, I will see if I can provide samples.
>
>
> Likes:
> 1. Best comment was the layered design of core, model and extensions.
> ServiceProxy, ServiceWrappers and Operation (which is basically a generic
> way of storing RPC identifiers)
>
> I actually got the SCA tweaked to remove the SDO and DAS and the code size
> was less than 500KB. I preferred static data marshalling factory of all
> types to get rid of the SDO and DAS. The wire protocol format in the service
> binding should be sufficient to make it interoperable.
>
> Please note that, I have disliked some very nice features of SCA mainly to
> make it practical in embedded world.These points may make no sense on the
> server side with greater availability of memory, cpu and storage.
>
> My conclusion was to base the framework on WSDL + OSGi + SCA (conversations
> feature is really nice and lacks in WSDL).
>
> I will revisit SCA after some time to see if SDO can be developed with
> lower footprint (i don't need all the features of SDO like change summary).
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Shiva
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Altaf Muneer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:19 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: Tuscany SCA Native
>
> Hi Haleh, Simon,
>
> Thanks for the responses and comments..
>
> > Do you have a pure C/C++ environment or is this an environment where Java
> and C++ components will be used in the same composite?
> We have a pure C/C++ environment..
> We are planning to use Tuscany SCA native (a stripped down version if that
> is possible) in an embedded environment
>
> > At the moment I think it's a matter of looking at how the existing
> bindings work an doing similar.
> Yeah, i think thats what we will try to do..
>
> Thank you for your time and suggestions
>
> Regards,
> Altaf
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:24 PM, haleh mahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Atlaf,
>>
>> Do you have a pure C/C++ environment or is this an environment where Java
>> and C++ components will be used in the same composite?
>>
>> Haleh
>>
>>   On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Altaf
>>>
>>> Some comments in line...
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>  On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Altaf Muneer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I was just checking the SCA Native strain of Tuscany and I had the
>>>> following questions..
>>>>
>>>> Is there any ongoing work in Tuscany SCA Native? (I noticed that the
>>>> last release was in May 2007)
>>>
>>>
>>> Not a lot. I did just check in a patch that one of the community
>>> contributed but other than that there hasn't been recent discussion about
>>> how to move it forward. Good opportunity if you want to get involved;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is there any support for C in Tuscany SCA Native?
>>>
>>>
>>> Not yet FAIK. There is a spec for C component types (
>>> http://www.osoa.org/download/attachments/35/SCA_ClientAndImplementationModelforC_V100.pdf?version=1)
>>> but no implementation of it yet.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Are there any resources which will help one add new bindings for Tuscany
>>>> SCA native?
>>>
>>>
>>>  It looks a bit thin at the moment. At the moment I think it's a matter
>>> of looking at how the existing bindings work an doing similar.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would be grateful if anybody can answer these questions/ point me to
>>>> some resources where I can find answers to these questions.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Altaf
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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