[Mono-dev] [Mono-list] Amber Communications Framework

Matthijs ter Woord matthijsterwoord at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 05:48:02 EDT 2006


The Microsoft announcement referred to in the quoted post, is that really
the case? Will Microsoft fight against any compatible implementation of WCF
and WPF?

Regards,

Matthijs ter Woord



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliott Draper" <el at eldiablo.co.uk>
To: <mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>; <mono-list at lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 2:10 AM
Subject: [Mono-list] Amber Communications Framework


> Hello everyone,
>
> A while back, I joined the development team of a project that was then 
> called "MonoIndigo". This was designed to be a port of Microsoft's Indigo 
> framework (now known as the Windows Communication Foundation). As many of 
> you know, Microsoft made it clear that any kind of direct port of Indigo 
> was not going to be accepted, and would be in breach of IP regulations. 
> Likewise, the same would apply for Avalon (now known as the Windows 
> Presentation Foundation I believe).
>
>   The main aim of that project, was to EXTEND Indigo's appeal, by making 
> the same code, unchanged, run on any platform that Mono run's on. Seeing 
> as this can no longer be the case, the project was changed, re-named, and 
> is no longer a direct port of Indigo. I personally feel we are lacking a 
> decent, service oriented framework for helping to develop client/server 
> applications under Mono, and I would like still to rectify that with the 
> Amber project. It's main aim is to make a functional useful messaging and 
> communication platform, running under either .Net/Mono, that takes the 
> hassle out of writing the actual communication layer of a server/client 
> app, allowing the developer to rely on the framework to perform the 
> communications, while they concentrate on the specifics of his/her 
> application.
>
> Anyway, enough waffle, the point of this e-mail is simply to see if anyone 
> else would be interested in working on such an open source effort, as 
> currently our development team is severely lacking, and with our current 
> resources it'll take us years to get to any kind of point where we are 
> able to release! So if any like-minded individuals are up for helping to 
> build a decent communications platform, hopefully benefitting the 
> community, and meanwhile providing a worthy rival to the Microsoft Windows 
> Communication Foundation, then please get in contact with me, the more the 
> merrier! We'll need developers, testers, people to help with 
> documentation, etc...
>
> In the meantime, here are a few project links:
> -- A wiki I setup for the project: 
> http://wiki.eldiablo.co.uk/amber/FrontPage
> -- The project page on NovellForge: 
> http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?amber
>
> Any questions, discussion, whatever, don't hesitate to drop me a mail.
>
> Cheers,
> -= El =-
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