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Re: I've been lazy

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On 15 Jul., 17:04, lewbloch <lewbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 15, 12:59 am, Ross <rossclem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've just written a client/server application. Usually when I do this,
> > I have to spend some time getting the protocols right, with hung
> > clients or servers being a typical alpha debugging scenario. This time
> > I just decided that all communications from the client were a single
> > string (encoded and sent encrypted with the server's public key).
> > Where usually I'd have a sequence of steps for operations that require
> > multiple bits of data, I just encoded all data into the single string,
> > and the server unpacks them, executes the command potentially using
> > unpacked data, and then replies with a single packed string. This was
> > much easier than having multi-step protocols.
>
> > Next time I'm defining an XML schema for requests and replies to make
> > this even more robust/general.
>
> > Apologies for the stream of consciousness question-less post.
>
> This isn't a help desk but a discussion group, so your introduction of
> a discussion topic is entirely appropriate.  Sounds like RESTful
> services or other XML-based communication protocols.  Since there are
> plenty of robust, standard libraries for this out there, you might
> seriously want to use those.  It's hard enough to master the
> deployment and ops details without reinventing the programming wheels.

Another thought that came to mind when reading the original posting:
if both client and server are Java and there is zero chance that other
languages need to be supported RMI might be a good choice, too.  RMI
avoids to manually do the parsing process.  If other languages need to
be supported then CORBA's IIOP is also a good fit - especially since
it is less verbose than XML (and maybe also RMI).  Granted, nowadays
XML and SOAP / WS are hip and there are plenty tools around (and also
debugging of ASCII based messages is easier) so that's probably the
most reasonable way to go.

Kind regards

robert

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I've been lazy Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-15 00:59 -0700
  Re: I've been lazy lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-15 08:04 -0700
    Re: I've been lazy Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-07-15 08:30 -0700
  Re: I've been lazy Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> - 2011-07-15 08:35 -0700
    Re: I've been lazy Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-15 09:38 -0700
      Re: I've been lazy Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-07-16 14:48 +0200
        Re: I've been lazy Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 08:48 -0700
          Re: I've been lazy lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 10:21 -0700
    Re: I've been lazy Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-15 09:39 -0700

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