On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Brendan Younger wrote:
> I have a distributed application which has to control hardware on
> multiple computers and communicate with a master application. There
> are at least half a dozen different hardware devices which can all be
> running at once necessitating at least as many custom programs.
> Somehow, all these programs have to communicate with each other over
> TCP/IP. I can write all the sockets code and create my own
> message-passing library for this, but that's an awful lot of work.
>
> So, is there a good message-passing library out there? MPI seems
> pretty close to what I need, but I really want asynchronous
> communication and loosely coupled programs, and MPI seems to consider
> things like quitting without receiving all the messages destined for
> your program to be an error. Am I not looking closely enough, is there
> a way to just send messages asynchronously to other programs and not
> care about the return value or having to call MPI_recv()? Or, is there
> another prebuilt library for this sort of stuff?
The Jabber protocol sounds like it might be a good fit for this. See
http://www.jabber.org/
TomP
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