New Incubator Proposal: Jaffre - a leightweight RPC library for the Java platform

2009-04-02 Thread Alexander Veit
Hi, the discussed Jaffre proposal could now be found at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/JaffreProposal Supporters and champions are welcome. Regards Alex - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org Fo

Re: Starting a new incubation

2009-03-22 Thread Alexander Veit
> Scott Comer (sccomer) wrote: > Have you looked at apache etch? Yes, I now have looked at it. It's great. It seems that Etch has a much broader scope than Jaffre ever will have. If I understood it right, Etch comes with it's own interface description language, and let's users the freedom to imp

Re: Starting a new incubation

2009-03-19 Thread Alexander Veit
> Siegfried Goeschl wrote: > could you provide some more technical background information The idea is quite simple and certainly not new in the Java world: method calls and return values are considered as data structures that are being serialized for transport. The data structures are JaffreCall

Re: Starting a new incubation

2009-03-18 Thread Alexander Veit
> Santiago Gala wrote: > I think it would be more appropriate as a "commons" component > than in any other place. I liked the stress on "not having any > dependence beyond the JRE" and "not being XML". Both play quite > badly with WS-*, where the norm is using XML and having lots of > (inter)depen

Re: Starting a new incubation

2009-03-18 Thread Alexander Veit
> Jukka Zitting wrote: > Sounds interesting. Is the code already available online? OK, I've made an ad hoc snapshot available for download: http://www.jaffre.org/ It's pre alpha. But the samples and also some test cases should work ;) > Sounds like RMI is probably not the best comparison point.

Re: Starting a new incubation

2009-03-17 Thread Alexander Veit
> Marcel Offermans wrote: > > Out of interest, if it's a simplified kind of RMI, what are > the tradeoffs for using RMI vs using Jaffre? Jaffre does not need skeletons/stubs. The endpoints are pojos, parameters and return values are java.io.Serializable objects. No registry is required. Jaffre

Re: Starting a new incubation

2009-03-17 Thread Alexander Veit
Hi Thilo, Thank you very much for your answer. > Thilo Goetz wrote: > > there are two things I'd advise you to do. > > One, put up a project proposal in the incubator wiki: > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ > You can also look at older proposals there. There is > no need to do this all at on

Starting a new incubation

2009-03-16 Thread Alexander Veit
a champion. If this is correct, I would herewith like to announce the search for a champion. If I'm wrong, I would appreciate any advice how to proceed. Regards, Alexander Veit - To unsubscribe, e-mail: g