Re: Sage
William Stein
<bret...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Hey William,
>
> I think that I actually want to use the Google Protocol Buffers that Glenn
> was talking about in his email to the finance group instead of xml-rpc. The
> java api for google PB is much less complicated than either java xml-rpc
> implementation and I think it's much better for this, as well as far simpler
> to code.
This might be a good idea given that Google evidently released client and
servers for doing Protocol Buffers for Python, C++ and Java. Please create
a simple and complete example that (1) involves using Java and Python to
add two integers and (2) *I* can try out. It should look something like this:
(1) start some java program
(2) start Sage
(3) sage: a = connect_to_that_java_program_via_a_port
(4) sage: a.add(3,5)
8
If PB is any good, this should take you at most 4 hours and will
be worth doing. If you can't do it in a mere 4 hours, I question
the quality of PB.
-- William
Glenn H Tarbox, PhD
The remote call will be blocking... which is fine. It will prove the
point you're looking to prove.
Simultaneously, I'll write a twisted asynchronous client to the same
java server and show how to write a non-blocking client for simple
request-response handling. I think this would be useful to illustrate
how to write asynchhronous clients...
-glenn
>
> -- William
>
> >
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William Stein
Excellent. That's a good plan.
William