[Opensim-dev] User services refactoring status

[Mic Bowman]

Do you expect those formalized interfaces to remain stable long enough to
warrant the effort to create alternative implementations? Others have
provided alternative implementations in the past that quickly became
obsolete.

--mic


On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:17 PM, <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:

> 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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