Introduction, XML-RPC Profile

Hello,

Before I get too far along, let me introduce myself.  I am a developer
for a company called "Bluefin Robotics"
(http://www.bluefinrobotics.com/) in the US.  Yes, we really make
submarines.

I'm very interested in using BEEP as the core framework for a suite of
(commercial) operator tools.  I'm impressed with the usability
of the existing Roadrunner toolkit.  Aside from the obvious licensing
issues, how 'healthy' is the BEEP developer community?  Are these many
other commercial or Open Source projects using BEEP?

I'm particularly interested in using the XML-RPC profile for my
application.  Over the last couple of days I've developed a
HTTP->BEEP proxy/gateway application and have started to test the
RR-XMLRPC implementation against the Frontier XML-RPC validation suite
(validator.xmlrpc.com).  Finally, this morning, I passed the
validation suite!

Completion of the validation suite required a series of patches to the
xml-rpc module (the xml-rpc serialization/unserialization syntax was
internally consistent, but not consistent to other implementations).
I've also produced a "validation test server" which will complete the
tests.  I recognize there are some commercial aspects which may need
to be ironed out, but I'd like to start a dialog about integrating my
patches into the Roadrunner distribution.


Thank you,

Aaron Marsh
[email protected]
Bluefin Robotics