Re: [dist-obj] Have fun: "The End of Protocols"

• To: Neville Burnell <Neville.Burnell@bmsoft.com.au>
• Subject: Re: [dist-obj] Have fun: "The End of Protocols"
• From: "Joseph R. Kiniry" <kiniry@cs.caltech.edu>
• Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:58:39 -0500
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Neville Burnell wrote:
> 
> > The point the article makes is that once you have RMI, you have all
> > you need for application protocols between client and server. Thanks
> > to the magic of mobile code, the client doesn't need to have the wire
> > protocol hard-coded anymore.
> 
> This reminds me of something I read on the SoftWired site about iBus
> some time ago - that the various protocol handling classes could be
> changed dynamically at runtime at one end and the iBus "core" would pass
> the new protocol code down the wire to the other end which would
> dynamically reconfigure, load the new protocol handling classes and
> bingo - new protocol on the wire!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Neville Burnell
> Business Manager Software

The original design and implementation of this work (component-based
automagic protocol extension and more) is part of Dan Zimmerman's MS
work - UberNet. <http://www.infospheres.caltech.edu/releases/index.html>

Joe

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