Reliable multicasting

ruby-talk
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Does anyone know if anyone of the reliable multicasting protocols exist implemented in ruby?

Actually what I am really looking for is something like JGroups implemented in a language-independent way. I mean jgroups pretty much seems to need java, and I want to integrate something between, java, ruby and perhaps PHP.

Anyway I figured that if there at least is a reliable multicasting in ruby, you could create something JGroups-like on top of that.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

/Christoffer

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There is a Ruby interface to the Spread toolkit:

Spread: <http://www.spread.org/SpreadPlatforms.html&gt;
rb_spread: <http://rbspread.sourceforge.net/&gt;

Gary Wright

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On Oct 11, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Christoffer Lernö wrote:

Does anyone know if anyone of the reliable multicasting protocols exist implemented in ruby?

Actually what I am really looking for is something like JGroups implemented in a language-independent way. I mean jgroups pretty much seems to need java, and I want to integrate something between, java, ruby and perhaps PHP.

Anyway I figured that if there at least is a reliable multicasting in ruby, you could create something JGroups-like on top of that.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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check out spread, there are ruby bindings for it.

   The Spread Toolkit

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/

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On Oct 11, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Christoffer Lernö wrote:

Does anyone know if anyone of the reliable multicasting protocols exist implemented in ruby?

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Does anyone know if anyone of the reliable multicasting protocols exist implemented in ruby?

Actually what I am really looking for is something like JGroups implemented in a language-independent way. I mean jgroups pretty much seems to need java, and I want to integrate something between, java, ruby and perhaps PHP.

Anyway I figured that if there at least is a reliable multicasting in ruby, you could create something JGroups-like on top of that.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

There is a Ruby interface to the Spread toolkit:

Spread: <http://www.spread.org/SpreadPlatforms.html&gt;
rb_spread: <http://rbspread.sourceforge.net/&gt;

Ah, I should have mentioned I did check out spread, but its not a canidate due to its need for a separate daemon process.

/Christoffer

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maybe it can be done - but it seems any reliable multicasting platform is going to have this requirement - after all someone needs to be listening on a port(s) to get messages right?

what's the alternative to not having a daemon?

btw - email is a good alternative for some applications - it's pretty dang reliable :wink:

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/

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On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Christoffer Lernö wrote:

Ah, I should have mentioned I did check out spread, but its not a canidate due to its need for a separate daemon process.

--
it is not enough to be compassionate. you must act.
h.h. the 14th dalai lama

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Well, apparently in JGroups there is no daemon, everything seems to be handled in each "client" to ensure FIFO, lossless transmission etc.

/C

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On 12 Oct 2007, at 07:25, ara.t.howard wrote:

On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Christoffer Lernö wrote:

Ah, I should have mentioned I did check out spread, but its not a canidate due to its need for a separate daemon process.

maybe it can be done - but it seems any reliable multicasting platform is going to have this requirement - after all someone needs to be listening on a port(s) to get messages right?
what's the alternative to not having a daemon?