Re: [DotGNU]A plan for DotGNU: Rudolf

[James Michael DuPont]

could this be used to implement an interactive shell?
what about the virus gopal talks of?
mike
--- Peter Minten <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I worked out the idea of DotGNU + Fox a little further. This is a
> plan for the
> first DotGNU distribution using Fox, comments very welcome. Note that
> this plan
> is not very flexible and additional arrangements will have to be made
> for full
> .NET compatibility. It allows however a very high degree of code
> reuse.
> 
> Since every good plan needs a good name and Christmas is only a week
> ago I'm
> calling this one Rudolf.
> 
> The first major difference between this plan and the old DotGNU
> schemes is that
> GNU-RPC is dumped in favor of Jabber/XML-RPC (AKA Jabber-RPC). This
> is needed
> because GNU-RPC is not moving AFAIK and getting a SWIGable (C/C++)
> lib for it up
> and running would take about a year. 
> 
> Jabber-RPC is a pretty simple standard and it can easily be
> integrated in
> XML-RPC using applications (DGEE). It's also compatible with the
> service level
> plans. We can even simplify the session managment since Jabber-RPC
> communication
> uses a constant connection so there is no need for sending the
> session key every
> time.
> 
> The role of the Bulter is increased to that of a DGCE (DotGNU Client
> Enviroment). In Rudolf the Bulter handles connecting, authentication
> and the
> whole encryption stuff transparently. It also extracts XML containing
> the FOX
> message from Jabber-RPC messages and sends it through a pipe to the
> application
> frontend running on the client.
> 
> Inside the application frontend process the DotGNU Translator
> component watches
> the pipe to the Butler. When a FOX message in XML comes in it parses
> it and
> sends it on to the receiver.
> 
> In diagram form it looks like this:
> 
> +--------------------+
> |   User Interface   |
> |                    |
> | +----------------+ |
> | |      FOX       | |
> | +----------------+ |
> |        |||         |
> | +----------------+ |   +----------+             +--------+
> | |   Translator   |<--->|  Butler  |<===========>|  DGEE  |
> | +----------------+ |   +----------+             +--------+
> +--------------------+
> 
> On the server side a translator and some library functions to emulate
> Fox will
> be needed but that shouldn't pose a problem.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Peter
> 
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