Distributed Objects?

David Mitchell david.mitchell at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 02:34:48 UTC 2006


Magma's remote framework can be used outside of Magma. It is available
as "Ma client server" See this page for details and usage:

http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2978

On 8/18/06, Michael van der Gulik <squeakml at gulik.co.nz> wrote:
> Rich Warren wrote:
> > Is there any support for distributed objects or sending remote  messages
> > in Squeak? I found the socket support, but I'm looking for a
> > more-transparent solution.
>
> Yes, but the quality of projects vary. I don't think there's anything
> out there yet which is production quality yet, but I could be wrong.
>
> See:
>
> - Croquet is probably the best example; you get fancy 3-D stuff for
> free. http://www.opencroquet.org.
>
> - Craig Latta's project, Spoon, does (as far as I know) remote object
> invocation. http://www.netjam.org/spoon. You get a tiny image for free.
>
> - Search this list for the word "remote":
> http://map.squeak.org/packagesbyname. rST is interesting.
>
> - I'm not entirely sure, but I think Magma (the OO database) does a bit
> of remote stuff too. This is stable enough for production use (although
> I haven't tried it myself). http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2665
>
> - My own project does transparently distributed,replicated objects, but
> it doesn't work yet and I can't release the latest code because of my
> current employment contract. http://squeaksource.com/DPON.html.
>
> Michael.
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