Re: Asynchronous transport for permanent connections

> Good work Marco!
>
> We'd be interested in incorporating this module into Mule after a code
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> Cheers,
>
> Ross
>
> On 6 Mar 2007, at 19:42, Marco D'Alia wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I've made a proof of concept of an asynchronous transport for
>> permanent socket connections as a final thesis for my bachelor degree.
>>
>> The main objective was to manage a large number of simultaneous
>> connections using SEDA, especially with  protocols that need to keep the
>> connections open between requests.
>> For this reason I've used non-blocking sockets (through Mina library):
>> so while a request is processed there is no thread waiting for a
>> response, greatly lowering the number of threads required.
>> Looking for a SEDA implementation the choice fell on the excellent
>> Mule ESB.
>>
>> The code is composed of some general classes for implementing transports
>> with nio and two sample implementations: a sender/receiver tcp transport
>> and a receiver-only http transport.
>>
>> This can be useful not only for long lasting/permanent connections, but
>> also to send large quantities of data, streaming and push protocols.
>>
>> Since it is based on Mina it can also be useful to integrate Mina based
>> protocols with Mule.
>>
>> I've arranged a trac repository with the code and a better description
>> of how it works: http://minamule.madarco.net/trac
>>
>> I'd be glad to hear some feedback from the Mule developer community :)
>>
>> Marco D'Alia
>>
>>
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