[cap-talk] choice of client-side for distributed application

[Ben Laurie]

On 6/8/06, John Carlson <john.carlson3 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > If you want to stick with Java, you could make use of the underlying
> > libraries on which E is implemented: ELib. They're written in Java and
> > might get you a long way towards your goal of a distributed
> > capability-based whiteboard system.
>
> I think I need to get a web host that allows shell access, so I can
> run an E server (or a waterken server).

How about a CaPerl server?

http://caperl.links.org/

>  Right now, I am limited to
> Perl and PHP.   Thus this whole conversation is kind of moot until
> I can get a reasonable web host.  What I am trying to to do is to
> get someone to host a generic capability server that I can use as
> a database to support various applications.  I can help design
> such a server.  It's a long term goal--I don't have any immediate
> need for this.  If people do have a need for such a server, we should
> start designing this on some mailing list somewhere.  Perhaps someone
> would be kind enough to donate a server for this effort?  If I were
> to start such a project, what would be a good name for it?
>
> I feel that we can take two approaches.  Try to design something
> that will host any capability database application w/o implementing any
> client specifics on the server (unless they are uploaded somehow).
> Or we can continue along the lines of waterken, and do server
> extensions.  I can see giving clients a capability to upload an
> application or class into the server, and have it run in a sandbox.
> Perhaps one can send a collection of classes that all run in the
> same sandbox.
>
> I do like the way that capabilities are passed around the network
> with web-calculus.   If E makes that invisible, maybe I should
> look at it more.   What is E's multiuser capability distribution system?
>
> Have people deployed Elib clients with Java Web Start?  Does someone
> have an example?
>
> John
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