[ grinder-Feature Requests-3525230 ] Switch to a standard network library

Feature Requests item #3525230, was opened at 2012-05-09 11:35
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Category: Core engine
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Philip Aston (philipa)
Assigned to: Philip Aston (philipa)
Summary: Switch to a standard network library

Initial Comment:
As much of the communication package as possible should be replaced with a standard network library. This should improve maintainability and provide more flexibility.

Key features required:
 - Client/Server networking over TCP.
 - Support for java serialisation.
 - Server side acceptor framework that manages connections and network events a scalable manner.
 - Reaping of stale connections.
 - Open source license.
 - Actively maintained.

Nice to have (if the base layer doesn't do it, we'll need to maintain the current implementation):
 - Ability to use a pair of InputStream/OutputStream as a transport.
 - Addressable connections; a server can identify client connections by some meta data and target messages to specific clients.

Nice to have:
 - Options for payload marshalling.
 - Monitoring.

I'm going to look hard at Apache MINA to start with.


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Comment By: a bagehot (abagehot)
Date: 2012-07-02 15:44

Message:
hazelcast?
http://www.hazelcast.com/

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Comment By: Philip Aston (philipa)
Date: 2012-07-01 08:56

Message:
Aleph is worth considering too.

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Comment By: Philip Aston (philipa)
Date: 2012-05-13 09:36

Message:
Feature #3526344 should be done first.

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Comment By: Philip Aston (philipa)
Date: 2012-05-13 09:35

Message:
Also need to support fan-out. (Why doesn't the SF tracker let me edit the
"details" - sigh).


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Comment By: Philip Aston (philipa)
Date: 2012-05-13 09:32

Message:
Netty 3 looks cleaner than MINA.

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