From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id UAA17778; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:43:01 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id UAA17944 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:43:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA14277 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:31:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lexys-server.poshub.com (lexys-server.poshub.com [209.192.151.2]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f6OEVMn10777 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:31:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pos11 [209.192.151.29] by lexys-server.poshub.com (SMTPD32-5.08) id A7F8D10600C6; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:28:24 -0300 From: "Aaron Roth" To: Subject: [Caml-list] Ensemble (English sense) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:32:40 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi, all. I'm thinking of developing a client-server application using O'Caml. The choices at this point seem to be CORBA (through C) or SOAP, both of which would entail quite a bit of work to use in O'Caml, I think. But looking around yesterday, I came across Ensemble, from Cornell, which seems like an excellent framework for all manner of network programming, including client-server. But checking through the Ensemble CVS logs, it doesn't seem that the code's been touched in nearly 2 years. Does this mean that it's reached a state of perfection or of total disuse? Is anyone out there using Ensemble for large-scale (say, > 500 clients) applications? Will anyone argue for or against it vis-a-vis CORBA or SOAP? Broadly, my requirements are to run that many clients with some decent security, possibly involving a 3rd party VPN solution but preferably with (at least some aspects of) security integrated right into the networking code (e.g. CORBA/SSL, SOAP over HTTPS). And the servers would be some flavor of UNIX, so no DCOM (as far as I know). Particularly appealing about Ensemble is the possibility of later adding more peer-to-peer style messaging between clients in a part of the application separate from the client-server part. Thank you for your thoughts. Best, Aaron Roth ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr