Very good idea, such syncing among diff apache projects is highly welcome and I can say it is a MUST.
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Julien Vermillard <jvermill...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Roger Schildmeijer > <schildmei...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> Been examining the asyncweb project in more details (atleast the >> asyncweb.client and asyncwebserver components). Below is my notes (simple >> draft). >> >> asyncweb notes >> -client module >> * https support for Deft's AHC (AsynchronousHttpClient) could borrow some >> details from asyncweb (o.a.asyncweb.client.SimpleTrustManagerFactory) >> * Improve the http request decoding (org.apache.ahc.codec.HttpDecoder, eg. >> decode[line, status, header, cookie]) >> >> >> -server module >> * like the simple and elegant design of >> o.a.asyncweb.server.resolver.ServiceResolver (and its concrete impl., eg. >> PatternMatchResolver (comparable to Deft's "Capturing groups") and >> ExactMatchURIServiceResolver) >> * o.a.asyncweb.server.HttpClientListener (interface with callbacks >> clientDisconnected, clientIdle, register listeners on HttpServiceContext). I >> like the idea. Useful for comet/longpoll (could be worth to add to Deft). >> >> >> Conclusion: >> Ofcourse there are overlaps between the two projects. I agree with Emanuel >> Emmanuel Lécharny regarding that "It's almost as difficult to write from >> scratch some piece of code than to reuse some other with lost support..." >> Deft is built (tightly integrated) around the event-loop >> (org.deftserver.io.IOLoop) which the modules (e.g the web server component >> and the async http client) heavily depend upon. Asyncweb is built on top of >> the Apache MINA network framework and to merge these two project (Asyncweb >> and deft) is non trivial, therefor I propose we don't. Also, I guess >> asyncweb was "abandoned" for a reason? >> > > Took a look at Deft, I know well AsyncWeb, and the two projects are > really similar. > AsyncWeb was abandoned for some weird community issues (the merge of > MINA and AsyncWeb communities was badly managed) and because it's much > funnier to redo an HTTP from scratch than taking back and abandoned > project :) > > We are currently recoding MINA from scratch (v3.0) so we can share > ideas about asynchronous API for network operations, perf tests, etc.. > I think the two projects should stay in touch and share background ideas. > > Julien > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Author of (WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0 User Guide) http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247585.html - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour - Blog: http://tadabborat.blogspot.com ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein "Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best." - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship "Stay hungry, stay foolish." - Steve Jobs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
