[e-lang] [CommonJS] Re: Concurrency standard module

[Mark S. Miller]

Both web_send and caja-captp are built to use JSON (as a request encoding)
on HTTPS (as a transport). web_send actually uses HTTPS according to
HTTP/REST principles, with URLs as remote object references. caja-captp on
HTTPS will use HTTPS only as a transport.

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Kris Zyp <kriszyp at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Mark S. Miller wrote:
> > [+e-lang]
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Kris Zyp <kriszyp at gmail.com
> > <mailto:kriszyp at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I hope CommonJS doesn't attempt to specify an inter-machines
> protocol,
> >     there are plenty of good protocols out there, we don't want to
> >     reinvent
> >     that wheel, and we certainly wouldn't want to be limited to only
> >     communicating with other CommonJS machines (the machines could be
> >     running any language).
> >
> >
> > Agreed. Both Tyler's web_send protocol
> > <http://waterken.sourceforge.net/web_send/> and E's CapTP protocol
> > <http://code.google.com/p/caja-captp/> are good language neutral
> > distributed capability protocols with implementations in several
> > languages supporting communicating event-loops concurrency. Which one
> > is better is a complex question involving many tradeoffs. Their APIs
> > in JavaScript are quite similar. This community should look at both
> > and understand the considerations each is optimizing for.
> >
> And FWIW, Persevere uses and will continue to primarily use HTTP (with a
> preferred resource representation of application/javascript) as the
> primary inter-machine protocol (perhaps others like the ones you
> mentioned could be supported as well). JSON referencing is used for
> links/URI referencing and JSON-RPC when necessary for tighter coupled
> invocations. HTTP seems to be doing pretty decent in terms of adoption,
> scalability, and language neutrality :). It has worked really nicely
> with JS in Persevere as well. Clearly, there are a number of options out
> there that people can and will use, so as we have said, CommonJS
> shouldn't dictate how we communicate with others.
> Kris
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-- 
   Cheers,
   --MarkM
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