[Opensim-users] r8525: no more remoting

[John Sheridan]

<< sighs >>  And here's to messy old Firefox borking a copy/paste! :P
John Sheridan wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken the term "remoting" pertains to a remote procedure 
> call or a way of communicating between processes spread over a network. 
>
> ".NET Remoting allows an application to make an object 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming> (termed 
> /remotable object/) available across /remoting boundaries/, which 
> includes different appdomains <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appdomain>, 
> processes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_%28computing%29> or even 
> different computers connected by a network.^[4] 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Remoting#cite_note-overview-3> The 
> .NET Remoting runtime hosts the listener for requests to the object in 
> the appdomain <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appdomain> of the server 
> application. At the client end, any requests to the remotable object are 
> proxied by the .NET Remoting runtime over |Channel| objects, that 
> encapsulate the actual transport mode, including TCP 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol> streams, 
> HTTP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP> streams and named pipes 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe>. As a result, by instantiating 
> proper |Channel| objects, a .NET Remoting application can be made to 
> support different communication protocols without recompiling the 
> application. The runtime itself manages the act of serialization 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization> and marshalling 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_%28computer_science%29> of 
> objects across the client and server appdomains.^[4] 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Remoting#cite_note-overview-3> "
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Remoting)
>
>  - Orion Pseudo
>
>
> Sacha Magne wrote:
>   
>> Hmm, what means "remoting" in english for us, mortal users ?
>>
>> thanks
>> Sacha
>>
>> On 2/20/09, Frisby, Adam <adam at deepthink.com.au> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> +1
>>>
>>>
>>>  > -----Original Message-----
>>>  > From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-users-
>>>  > bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Diva Canto
>>>  > Sent: Thursday, 19 February 2009 8:57 PM
>>>  > To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
>>>  > Subject: [Opensim-users] r8525: no more remoting
>>>  >
>>>  > Just a heads-up to let everyone know that r8525 departs from .NET
>>>  > Remoting for good.
>>>  > Post-r8525 sims no longer listen on remoting ports, they use http
>>>  > exclusively. This means that those of you who haven't updated your sims
>>>  > in the past month or so won't be able to go to places that are up-to-
>>>  > date.
>>>  >
>>>  > The UCI Hypergrid gateways are up-to-date.
>>>  >
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