Re: Groovy + JXTA

+1

It's a great idea! Can we help you?

Bruno E. Grossi

---- Mensagem Original ----
From: "Guillaume Laforge" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Ter, Dezembro 19, 2006 11:15 am
Subject: Re: [JXTA user] Groovy + JXTA

In fact, it wouldn't have to be a "port" of JXTA in Groovy, but the
idea could be to provide a thin layer on top of the JXTA apis that
would add some more "grooviness" to them :-)

On 12/19/06, Walter Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it would be great to have a Groovy port of JXTA. I'm new to both
JXTA and Groovy and have been working on creating a JXTA app using Groovy.
So far the results are more Java than Groovy but I'm getting there :-)
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Guillaume Laforge <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 4:35:58 PM
> Subject: [JXTA user] Groovy + JXTA
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm working on the Groovy project, the dynamic language for the JVM.
> For one of my customers, I was investigating the JXTA technology.
> And I was wondering whether there could be some ways to make JXTA more
Groovy.
>
> For instance, it could be nice to use the configurator that way:
>
> def conf = new NetworkConfigurator().configure {
>     home = new File(jxtaHome)
>     peerId = "..."
>     name = "my name"
>     multicast = false
>     // etc...
> }
>
> We could also use Groovy's coercion mechanism to transform closures
> into rendezvous listeners in a single line:
>
> def listener = { RendezvousEvent evt -> println evt.toString() } as
> RendezvousListener
>
> It'd be nice to have some easy ways for creating peer groups, pipes or
> other JXTA artifacts.
> I feel that JXTA is quite complicated to master and understand, and
> that some Groovy basic layer above raw JXTA libraries could help
> foster the adoption of JXTA for building simple P2P applications --
> while still being able to fine-tune more complex applications with the
> raw power and capabilities of JXTA.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Guillaume
>
> PS: I'm really just thinking aloud, and I'm neither an exeprt of JXTA,
> not able to implement those ideas as I'm a total JXTA newbie
>
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