I am currently working on the HTTP client piece.  Check back later in the
day for an update.  I will respond to this thread with further information.


-- 
..Cheers
Mark

On 8/27/07, Kevin Smeltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Nice!
>
> I'm in the latter stages ( or so I say ) of development of a massive
> multiplayer game that is distributed via an Applet.
>
> I have been wondering about using TCP/IP for all data transmission
> from client to server and vice versa, but there may be problems with
> people who are playing the game in an applet.
>
> Also, applets can only connect to the domain that served the page using
> TCP/IP.
>
> But using HTTP as a transport would hopefully bypass those two problems.
>
> And that would be awesome! :-D
>
> Kevin
>
> On 8/27/07, Jeff Genender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Kevin Smeltzer wrote:
> > > Is this a project for doing transfer through HTTP using Mina? If so it
> > > could be very valuable (to me anyways) :-D
> >
> > Yep ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > On 8/27/07, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> I have been moving things around, creating the 3 separate
> subprojects.
> > >> Everything is compiling and seems to be in good shape.  I posted a
> question
> > >> to the list a couple days ago about javadocs at the class level and
> have not
> > >> heard back.  Maybe your email and mine will bump this thread and
> someone can
> > >> answer my question.
> > >>
> > >> Either way, I will check in what I have tonight.  I'm on EST....
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> ..Cheers
> > >> Mark
> > >>
> > >> On 8/27/07, Jeff Genender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>> Any status on where we are at with this?  I have patches I want to
> start
> > >>> delivering ;-)
> > >>>
> > >>> Jeff
> > >>>
> > >>> Mike Heath wrote:
> > >>>> I don't want to hold up moving this code over.  If/when we decide
> to put
> > >>>> it on a different release schedule, moving the module over to a
> > >>>> 'commons' repo or something similar will be trivial.  So, for the
> time
> > >>>> being, I would be fine if we moved asynchronous http client into
> MINA as
> > >>>> a module.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I'm eager to play with this client and I'm very eager to look into
> using
> > >>>> it to create asynchronous web service calls.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> -Mike
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Mark wrote:
> > >>>>> I like Trustin's three module ideas as well.  I also think Mike
> has a
> > >>>>> valid
> > >>>>> concern on the release schedule.  I would rather get a consensus
> on
> > >>> this
> > >>>>> before we move forward.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> On 8/23/07, Cameron Taggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>>>>> I liked Trustin's three module idea:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> * mina-filter-codec-http <-- common code
> > >>>>>> * mina-protocol-server-http <-- asyncweb imported here
> > >>>>>> * mina-protocol-client-http <-- AsyncHttpClient imported here
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Can it be  decided later, after the import, whether it should be
> on
> > >>>>>> the same release cycle as MINA!?  Apache Felix has components
> such as
> > >>>>>> their "commons" on a different release schedule.  I think MINA
> could
> > >>>>>> do the same if needed.  The most important thing I think is to
> get the
> > >>>>>> code imported right now.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Cameron
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> On 8/23/07, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>>>>>> based on Mike's comments, I am not sure where we want to go with
> all
> > >>>>>> this.
> > >>>>>>> On 8/22/07, Jeff Genender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>> Mike and Mark,
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> I did my final commits.  Feel free to grab the code.  I will
> hold on
> > >>>>>>>> further development until it hits the Mina repo.  You can find
> it
> > >>> all
> > >>>>>>>> here:
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/sandbox/AsyncHttpClient/
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> Thanks,
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> Jeff
> > >>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>> Mike Heath wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>> Trustin Lee wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>> We might be able to extract common codec from both server and
> > >>>>>> client
> > >>>>>>>>>> side into a separate module and let two depend on it,
> resulting
> > >>>>>> three
> > >>>>>>>>>> submodules in total:
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> * mina-filter-codec-http
> > >>>>>>>>>> * mina-protocol-server-http
> > >>>>>>>>>> * mina-protocol-client-http
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> wdty?
> > >>>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>>> Trustin
> > >>>>>>>>> Are you suggesting making the above sub-modules part of MINA
> > >>>>>> itself?  I
> > >>>>>>>>> don't like this idea as stated in my previous messages.  I
> don't
> > >>>>>> like
> > >>>>>>>>> tying the release of MINA to the release of HTTP protocol
> handlers
> > >>>>>> and
> > >>>>>>>>> vice versa.
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> I very much like the idea of extracting common functionality
> > >>> between
> > >>>>>> an
> > >>>>>>>>> HTTP server and HTTP client and having both the client and
> server
> > >>>>>> depend
> > >>>>>>>>> on the common module.
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> After giving it a lot of thought, I'm of the opinion more now
> than
> > >>>>>> ever
> > >>>>>>>>> that we should make async-httpclient part of AsyncWeb.  They
> have
> > >>>>>> too
> > >>>>>>>>> much in common to keep them separate IMO.  There's no reason
> that
> > >>>>>>>>> AsyncWeb should be a server only project and IIRC, there were
> plans
> > >>>>>> made
> > >>>>>>>>> a while ago to create a client for AsyncWeb.  Such a move
> would
> > >>> also
> > >>>>>>>>> give us a good incentive to finally get AsyncWeb migrated over
> to
> > >>>>>> MINA.
> > >>>>>>>>> WDYT?
> > >>>>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>> -Mike
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> --
> > >>>>>>> ..Cheers
> > >>>>>>> Mark
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> >
>

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