Distributed Objects?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Aug 19 12:22:02 UTC 2006


On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 03:04:19PM +1200, Michael van der Gulik 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.

There is also SoapOpera (on SqueakMap), which allows communication with
Squeak or non-Squeak remote objects. It works fine, although I have not
personally put it to any heavy use. It seems to be well supported and
regularly updated (thanks to Masashi Umezawa).

Dave
 



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