[muscle] Re: Server design
- From: Marius Kjeldahl <marius@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muscle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:59:38 +0100
Thanks for the excellent links to more information about MUSCLE. Another=20
question:
Has anybody made a utility to dump/output the entire tree in a server? I've=
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fooled around with the programs in the "tests" directory, but have not foun=
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any easy way/program to dump the entire state tree.
If not, I guess it would be a good "tutorial assignment" for me.
Regards,
Marius Kjeldahl
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 01:16, Jeremy Friesner wrote:
> Hi Marius,
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> >I stumbled on MUSCLE while researching toolkits for client/server
> > application =0D toolkits, and based on the information I have read so f=
ar,
> > it looks like a very solid design.
>
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> Thanks :^)
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>
> >1) Server design. Should I plan on extending the muscled daemon, adding =
my
> > own =0D authentication layer and session logic, or would it be just as =
good
> > just to have a "server" as a separate process to another muscled proces=
s,
> > where my "server" (typically running centrally under my control) would
> > take care of controlling which messages gets distributed to what clients
> > through the muscled daemon?
>
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> Typically the server is a process that you manually start on the=20
> server computer, similar to how muscle's built-in muscled executable
> works.=0D=20
> The best way to do it is to make your own subclass of the
> StorageReflectSession =0D class (or AbstractReflectSession if you don't
> want/need the database or live query features) and add in any necessary
> custom logic there. You may also find it useful to make a "persistent
> state session" that contains state information that isn't specific to any
> particular client. This session would not be associated with any
> particular client, but would hang around permanently and interact with the
> clients' sessions.
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> If you haven't seen it already, be sure to read this article:
> http://www.lcscanada.com/muscle/muscle/html/Custom%20Servers.html
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>
> >2) Has anybody added SSL transport support?
>
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> Not that I'm aware of. But if you end up making an SSLDataIO wrapper
> class, I'd be happy to add it to the distribution!
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>
> >3) Anywhere I can look for more documentation or application examples?
>
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> Check out this article I wrote about multiplayer games
> with MUSCLE, it includes an example multiplayer game
> (only Windows binary and source links are working though,
> the other files seem to have disappeared from the server :^( )
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> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3D1523
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> Also, feel free to ask more questions here! :^)
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> Jeremy
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