[Opensim-users] r8525: no more remoting

John Sheridan john at pseudospace.net
Fri Feb 20 07:59:22 UTC 2009


Agreed with Trucker - I'm a bit out of my league in this part but I'm 
pretty sure remote admin runs off an XML-RPC type of structure, a 
different mechanism from remoting and probably a different section of 
the system from what Diva is mentioning?

trucker.anthony at 3rdrockgrid.com wrote:
> no it has nothing to do with remoteadmin access it is the way in which the
> regions communicate with eachother and across multiple servers
> TA
>
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:47:35 +0100, Sacha Magne <sacha.magne at k-grid.com>
> wrote:
>   
>> but still, does it means all our remoteadmin tools are worhtless ?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:08 AM, John Sheridan <john at pseudospace.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>  << 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>
>> <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>
>>>       
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appdomain>,
>>     
>>> processes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_%28computing%29>
>>>       
>> <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>
>> <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>
>>>       
>> <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>
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol> streams,
>>     
>>> HTTP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP>
>>>       
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP> streams and named pipes
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe>
>> <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>
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization> and marshalling
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_%28computer_science%29>
>> <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#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> <adam at deepthink.com.au>
>>>       
>> wrote:
>>     
>>>
>>>  +1
>>>
>>>
>>>  > -----Original Message-----
>>>  > From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-users
>>>       
>> <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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