I am currently building a path planner for 3D printers in Julia. We are also using a ZeroMQ interface to separate the web interface from the path planner. This is working very well for us now. We will also be using JuliaBox for packaging our application.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Eric Forgy <eric.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you Viral and thank you Stefan. > > The Rust solution would be an interesting and longer term effort because > the person I would rely on to do most of the development is not yet ready > to take the Rust plunge until it matures/stabilizes a bit more. > > The other two ideas REST and zeromq look interesting and I'd like to learn > more. I spent what little available time I had yesterday reading about > message queueing with zeromq and others. That is very interesting stuff. I > had a quick look at JuliaBox. That is pretty awesome :) I would love to > understand how it works. Like I said, I am pretty much a blank slate and > learning everything as I go, so looking at the JuliaBox code, it wasn't > immediately obvious (.t? .lua? :)). Does there exist a simple document > describing the process flow of how JuliaBox works? > > In very general terms, could you help sketch out and point me to some > reading material to help me make progress building a RESTful interface to > Julia running on a server? Should it be built entirely in Julia? Is it > already done in JuliaBox or elsewhere? I think initially, I will focus on > REST. Another platform (OpenGamma) I'm working with also has a RESTful API > so any effort I make will not be wasted even if I eventually start work > with zeromq (which I probably will). > > Thank you again. > > Cheers, > Eric > >
