[ANN] AP4R, Asynchronous Processing for Ruby, initial release

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We are pleased to announce the FIRST release of AP4R.

    http://rubyforge.org/projects/ap4r/
    
== DESCRIPTION

AP4R, Asynchronous Processing for Ruby, is the implementation of
reliable asynchronous message processing. It provides message
queuing, and message dispatching.

Using asynchronous processing, we can cut down turn-around-time
of web applications by queuing, or can utilize more machine power
by load-balancing.

Also AP4R nicely ties with your Ruby on Rails applications.
See HelloWorld sample application from rubyforge.

== INSTALLATION

sudo gem install ap4r

== FEATURES

* Business logics can be implemented as simple Web applications,
  or ruby code, whether it's called asynchronously or synchronously.

* Asynchronous messaging are reliable by RDBMS persistence (now
  MySQL only) or file persistence.

* Load balancing over multiple AP4R processes on single/multiple servers
  is supported.

* Asynchronous processes are called via various protocols, such
  as XML-RPC, SOAP, HTTP PUT, and more. (now implemented just as XML-RPC)

== CHANGES

This is the first release!

== ACKNOWLEDGMENT

K.K. and S.S. are on the payroll of Future System Consulting Corp. Japan.

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Kato, Kiwamu kato.kiwamu@future.co.jp
Shinohara, Shunichi shinohara.shunichi@future.co.jp

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SHINOHARA, Shun'ichi
  Future System Consulting, Corp.
    3-28-13 Shibuya Shibuya-Ku
    Tokyo, JAPAN (ZIP 150-0002)
  shinohara.shunichi@future.co.jp

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Interesting. And the timing is nice, I'm just seriously looking into this sort of thing now. How does your project relate to <http://rubyforge.org/projects/reliable-msg/&gt;?

Cheers,
Bob

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On Sep 1, 2006, at 2:21 AM, <shinohara.shunichi@future.co.jp> <shinohara.shunichi@future.co.jp> wrote:

We are pleased to announce the FIRST release of AP4R.

    http://rubyforge.org/projects/ap4r/

== DESCRIPTION

AP4R, Asynchronous Processing for Ruby, is the implementation of
reliable asynchronous message processing. It provides message
queuing, and message dispatching.

----
Bob Hutchison -- blogs at <http://www.recursive.ca/hutch/&gt;
Recursive Design Inc. -- <http://www.recursive.ca/&gt;
Raconteur -- <http://www.raconteur.info/&gt;
xampl for Ruby -- <http://rubyforge.org/projects/xampl/&gt;

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Neat. Are there any online docs?

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shinohara.shunichi@future.co.jp wrote:

We are pleased to announce the FIRST release of AP4R.

    http://rubyforge.org/projects/ap4r/
    
--
James Britt

http://www.ruby-doc.org - Ruby Help & Documentation
http://www.artima.com/rubycs/ - The Journal By & For Rubyists
http://www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff
http://www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys

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It's built on top of reliable-msg.

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On 9/1/06, Bob Hutchison <hutch@recursive.ca> wrote:

>

Interesting. And the timing is nice, I'm just seriously looking into
this sort of thing now. How does your project relate to <http://
rubyforge.org/projects/reliable-msg/>?

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Interesting. And the timing is nice, I'm just seriously looking into
this sort of thing now. How does your project relate to <http://
rubyforge.org/projects/reliable-msg/>?

It's built on top of reliable-msg.

Yes, it's completely owe message persistence to reliable-msg.
Main additional function of first version is dispatching messages
to Web server via XML-RPC.
So, we can build system with async processing just writing web
application e.g. with rails.

Another function is load-balancing amoung reliable-msg servers.
But its rather naive implementation, and doesn't work unless you
modify reliable-msg code a little.

Thank you for your interest!

Shinohara, Shunichi

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Subject: Re: [ANN] AP4R, Asynchronous Processing for Ruby, initial release

On 9/1/06, Bob Hutchison <hutch@recursive.ca> wrote:

>

Interesting. And the timing is nice, I'm just seriously looking into
this sort of thing now. How does your project relate to <http://
rubyforge.org/projects/reliable-msg/>?

It's built on top of reliable-msg.