Hi Ned,
This is the first I've heard of it, but it would definitely be useful 
even in its current form, in order to optimally coordinate the use of a 
cluster of Squeak web server applications. It would at the very least 
allow for multiple concurrent Squeak server threads to operate without 
contention. Of course it's also very useful for p2p type messaging, or 
by Squeak extension, Nebraska sessions as an example.

There are a few non-Squeak-related projects I am involved with which 
would also benefit in various ways, but that's off-topic.

Thanks!
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On Tuesday, June 4, 2002, at 09:51 AM, Ned Konz wrote:

> I've just been reading about Spread <http://www.spread.org/>, which is
> described by its authors as:
>
> "Spread is a toolkit that provides a high performance messaging
> service that is resilient to faults across external or internal
> networks. Spread functions as a unified message bus for distributed
> applications, and provides highly tuned application-level multicast
> and group communication support. Spread services range from reliable
> message passing to fully ordered messages with delivery guarantees,
> even in case of computer failures and network partitions."
>
> It seems to me that this could be useful for a number of applications
> in the Squeak world, as well.
>
> Its C API is quite simple, and provides for a number of different
> kinds of reliability and ordering guarantees. Individual messages can
> be up to about 100K in size, but they can be reliably ordered.
>
> Notifications are available on members leaving a group (whether by
> disconnection or by choice).
>
> They have a polling function that could be called from the Squeak aio
> framework.
>
> There are currently interfaces for C, Perl, Python, Java, and Ruby.
>
> I'm wondering whether there is any interest in this package or if
> anyone has done any work on making a Spread plugin.
>
> --
> Ned Konz
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