[e-lang] Newbie Joe-E questions

[Tyler Close]

Hi Jimmy,

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:18 PM, David Wagner <daw at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Jimmy Wylie writes:
>>First, is there any tamed networking library for Joe-e?
>
> Nope, I don't think so.  You get to do your own taming.  The Joe-E
> taming database is not yet populated, except in a very minimalistic way.
> I know this is a major annoyance, and I apologize for that.
>
> I don't know whether ref_send would be an appropriate solution.
> Tyler would.

The ref_send library does not provide direct access to sockets, so I
wouldn't call it a tamed networking library, but you can use ref_send
for networking applications. For example, you could certainly use
ref_send and the Waterken Server to implement a program similar to
EChat. Similar to the EChat program, you'd write the application in
terms of methods invoked on references. You can then use the Waterken
Server to make those references span machine boundaries, like E's
CapTP protocol does for E references.

--Tyler