The SIMPL project (http://www.icanprogram.com/simpl) aims to bring the Send/Receive/Reply messaging (first popularized by QNX) to the open source Linux world. Since its inception more that 10 years ago, the SIMPL toolkit has grown steadily in functionality. Through the use of surrogates, SIMPL modules can be dispersed seamlessly across networks including heterogeneous networks with only one Linux node. SIMPL modules can also be written in several programming languages including Python, C, C++, JAVA and Tcl/Tk. Modules written in different languages can be mixed in a SIMPL appliction.
Python-SIMPL has been used to connect Python UIs to C data acquisition/ computation backends. While this is an example of a common use for the toolkit, it is by no means the only place it could be useful. Python to Python, Python to JAVA as well as Python to C are all seamlessly possible in both local or distributed applications. Python- SIMPL allows a software application to be broken up into modules where the language choices for each module can be optimized. The Python-SIMPL interface library has undergone a fundamental revision with the v2.0.0 release. The underlying shared library which wraps the SIMPL toolkit as a Python extension was cleaned up considerably. In addition two new Python wrappers were created to expose this SIMPL toolkit in more object oriented fashion to the Python developer. The simplest starting point for exploring the Python-SIMPL toolkit is an online "hello world" level tutorial at: http://www.icanprogram.com/06py/lesson1/lesson1.html The Python-SIMPL toolkit can be downloaded in source form at: http://www.icanprogram.com/simpl/python.self.htm or in precompiled binary (i386) form at: http://www.icanprogram.com/simpl/pythonbin.self.html We at the SIMPL project welcome participants at all levels of expertise. If you are interested do not hesitate to contact us. bob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
