Drb naming service

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rubyists-

i am writing a simple naming service for DRb objects - itself a DRbObject.
my plan is to use this primarily as a means to locate services on the
localhost needed by cgi programs (say database connection pools). i have
never used a corba naming service so i am not that familiar with them but here
are my ideas so far

  • a hierachy of ServiceDomains will exist
  • ServiceDomains will be able to contain Services, or other ServiceDomains
  • Services (DRbObjects) will be able to register their name and uri within a
    ServiceDomain in the name server

i also plan an automatic timeout for services - the nameing service will
‘forget’ about a service if it has not heard from it for a configurable
‘while’ - and a simple web interface to the service.

i know this isn’t a very detailed write up, but if anyone has suggestions or
would like to test any prototypes please let me know.

-a

ps. if you know of an existing DRb naming service let me know, i’ve not been
able to find one

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Ara Howard
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory
Information and Technology Services
Data Systems Group
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ahoward wrote:
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ps. if you know of an existing DRb naming service let me know, i’ve not been
able to find one

Does Rinda::Ring do any of the things you want? I’ve never used it (it’s
new in drb 2.0, I think), but it looks interesting…