[Mono-list] Re: Mono / C# JXTA port

[Gregory Bowyer]

Luis Fernandez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think this could be a very interesting project.
> 
> There has been posts regarding a mono app server and I believe this could
> help achieve that goal.

Sorry JXTA is a p2p development framework it is not an application server.

> I think I have read somewhere that the JBOSS app server uses JXTA to talk to
> each of the component, one of them been the distributed object transaction
> support. So if we could be able to talk to this component through JXTA we
> could have transaction in mono, and later on maybe the ServicedComponents
> could use this to implement the namespace.

As such (but I could be wrong) I believe it is JMX, J2EE and JMS that is 
used within JBoss and not as far as I am aware JXTA (jeez there are too 
many J's in that last statement)
> Don't know if this is such a wild idea, but I think I remenber someone
> saying that we could obteain transaction support by using a java app server,
> and this could maybe simplify that task.

However the idea of anyone working on an application server would be a 
definite plus, especially as well lack anything that give us a real 
*winning platform over windows at the moment, perhaps starting with the 
XSP server, filling in the blanks in System.EnterpriseServices, a decent 
message queuing system and other bits of infrastructure can help bring 
this up to scratch.

> Regards,
> Luis
> 
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> [mailto:mono-list-admin@lists.ximian.com]On Behalf Of Gregory Bowyer
> Sent: 19 November 2004 13:09
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> Subject: [Mono-list] Re: Mono / C# JXTA port
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> 
> Battermann, Joerg wrote:
> 
>>Gregory,
>>
>>I am definetly interested - let me know what I can do / what kind of
>>help you need.
> 
> 
> Mainly grunt porting work from the Java source code, the majority of
> which I cant seem being too bad, I have converted the old JXTA version
> (Java 2.1) with Microsoft's JLCA tool, I will start soon on the new 2.3
> version.
> 
> The difficult bits as far as I can see are :
> 1) Changing the event model - The Java API uses the Java EventObject
> system this will need to be redone with delegates
> 
> 2) Java specifics, namely parts of the security model, use of reflection
> AWT dialogs etc
> 
> 3) Redefining how exceptions are handled - Whilst there is a lot of java
> style exception wrapping I personally think we need to find the bottom
> exception wrapper in a chain and only re-wrap where it makes sense (we
> are not trying to please the compiler after all)
> 
> 4) As I am working through the JLCA converted sources I am changing the
> namespaces and method names to be more .net style so for example package
> net.JXTA.access becomes namespace Jxta.Access and camelCase becomes
> FullCase. This has the bonus of letting me know which files I have
> worked on as I am a believer in the idea that code I haven't touched in
> two weeks might as well be new.
> 
> 5) Eventually the development of higher level code, some demo apps etc -
> It would be nice to leverage a simple model using attributes for the
> development of JXTA services as well as some of the java ideas such as
> having a JxtaSocket. The JxtaSocket could be difficult as I believe that
> the .net class namespace is sealed to its own .dll and cant be extended
> with a third party dll but I could be horrifically wrong.
> 
> Basically I am throwing this open for anyone to help so any commits to
> CVS at the moment are fine, when I have converted java-JXTA-2.,3 with
> JLCA I will submit the "grunt" work API to CVS.
> 
> 
>>Best regards / MfG,
>>--
>>Joerg Battermann
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mono-list-admin@lists.ximian.com
>>[mailto:mono-list-admin@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Gregory Bowyer
>>Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:52 AM
>>To: Mono-list@lists.ximian.com
>>Subject: [Mono-list] Mono / C# JXTA port
>>
>>I am currently starting and working on porting the JXTA library to .net,
>>Yes I am aware that the same deal can be done with IKVM but in due time
>>it would be nice to take advantage of C# features (namely attributes and
>>delegates) in JXTA. I hope that the c# impl can be compatible with all
>>other implementations (it should be) and a reasonable performer. This
>>port is done because imho JXTA should be on every major dev platform it
>>it want to succeed.
>>
>>Anyone willing to pitch-in a hand or lend advice ????
>>
>>The project is in its initial stages at jxta4net.jxta.org
>>
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