Re: [xmlblaster] Protocol socket variant : XMLSocket

[Cyrille Giquello <cyrille at giquello.com>]

Marcel Ruff wrote:

> Cyrille Giquello wrote:
>
> > Here is a peace of the Flash documentation say (from 
> > http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary860.html) 
> >
> > The protocol is as follows:
> > - XML messages are sent over a full-duplex TCP/IP stream socket 
> > connection.
> > - Each XML message is a complete XML document, terminated by a zero 
> > byte.
> > - An unlimited number of XML messages can be sent and received over a 
> > single XMLSocket connection.
> >
> > Perhaps it is not so hard to implements that protocol in XmlBlaster.
> > It looks like XmlBlaster's Socket plugin, with xml message against 
> > binary message.
>
>
> It shouldn't be too hard to use the flash XMLSocket.
>
> In xmlBlaster (current svn) we have two ways to serialize messages and 
> to unpack them
> again, one is the XML markup of the xmlBlaster XmlScriptParser 
> framework and the other
> is the more binary SOCKET (XbfParser) formatting, see
>
>  xmlBlaster/src/java/org/xmlBlaster/util/xbformat/XmlScriptParser.java
> (http://www.xmlblaster.org/xmlBlaster/doc/requirements/client.script.html) 
>
>
>  xmlBlaster/src/java/org/xmlBlaster/util/xbformat/XbfParser.java
>  
> (http://www.xmlblaster.org/xmlBlaster/doc/requirements/protocol.socket.html) 
>
>
> We use both pluggable in our 'email' protocol layer, the XbfParser for 
> the SOCKET protocol,
> so they are well tested.

Thanks Marcel for those good news ;o)

Do you think it could be nice/possible to add an option to the Socket 
protocol for switching the serializer/unserializer between binary/xml ? 
Or may we do another protocol plugin ?

cyrille.

> regards
> Marcel
>
> > Is that new protocol plugin could be use with other technology like 
> > Ajax ?
> > Do you think this new protocol should be pertinent for XmlBlaster's 
> > futur ?
> > Do you think that it could be hard to implement it ?
> > Has some of you can do it in one or two days ? If not, I've to do it, 
> > but I'm not a Java agile programmer, so I will be very slow ...
> >
> > thanks for discusses,
> > cyrille.