[Opensim-dev] User services refactoring status

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Putting PHP in front of the DBs is one of the most natural things to do 
from here on -- not just the things that Wiredux does, but for a lot 
more! In fact, the entire collection of OpenSim.Services that are 
provided as reference implementations can be replaced with 
implementations in Apache+PHP.

Calls from the simulators to the services are now all neatly packaged in 
OpenSim.Services.Connectors (these are the "out" connectors). Just 
browse through those connectors and check out the wire protocols, then 
do the receiving end in PHP. Many of them are using standard web forms, 
others use XMLRPC, others use custom-made HTTP-based dialects.

Calls from outside to the simulators are packaged in 
OpenSim.Server.Handlers. Again, check them out and, if not using .NET, 
write your own client for them. If using .NET/mono you can import the 
DLL OpenSim.Connectors.dll, and reuse the existing connectors as-is.

But that's not all. Since now the interactions between the simulators 
and the resource services are all formalized in interfaces 
(OpenSim.Services.Interfaces), and the handlers and connectors in the 
simulator are loaded dynamically, you can replace the connectors and 
handlers themselves. In other words, if you want OpenSim to talk web 
services, roll your own Web Services handlers and connectors under those 
interfaces, and you're done -- you'll have to use .NET for this part, 
though.

Tom Willans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First thanks for all your work. 
> 
> I assume from this that the webredux will no longer work without 
> modification and will need updating. ( Thanks again here).
> Is there any information about the new authentication approach anywhere, 
> if not in detail then an overview. Is LDAP on the horizon?
> 
> I am mostly interested in linking php based frontends to opensim and 
> hence accessing the database directly. Particularly relevant is moving 
> away from using UUIDs.
> Please forgive me if I am missing something but I assume there are no 
> web-services that can be called and calling C# from php is not a very 
> good solution.
> 
> Thanks.
> Tom
> On 5 Jan 2010, at 10:37, Ai Austin wrote:
> 
>> At 18:32 04/01/2010, opensim-dev-request at lists.berlios.de 
>> <mailto:opensim-dev-request at lists.berlios.de> wrote:
>>> To be honest, I don't think Sqlite should be a database type that we
>>> (OpenSim) should keep alive in the project,
>>
>>
>> It is useful to have a double click and go out of the box solution
>> which people can try out and test with.
>>
>> One other use of SQLite that I am aware of and fine very useful is
>> for the really simple and handy single region hosted on your own
>> system that is connected to the New World Grid for any avatar using
>> the "New World Studio" packaged version of Opensim. See
>> http://www.newworldgrid.com/lang/en-us/land/free-land
>>
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