[zeromq-dev] Using zmq over network without zmq_server
Chad Harrington
charrington at datascaler.com
Mon Jul 13 19:35:33 CEST 2009
Hi Martin,
When will this zsocket functionality be released? Is it in the 1.0 release?
Thanks!
Chad
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik at fastmq.com> wrote:
> Hi Ville,
>
> > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:29:37AM +0200, Martin Sustrik wrote:
> >> What we are working on at the moment is an alternate API to access 0MQ
> >> functionality. Specifically, it's API using "socket" metaphor rather
> >> than "exchange/queue" metaphor. One of the consequences is that you are
> >> using concrete addresses of network nodes rather than symbolic names:
> >>
> > [...]
> >> Have a look at the the API definition here:
> >>
> >> http://svn.fastmq.org/svn/zsock/trunk/include/zsockets.h
> >
> > The API looks sweet.
> >
> > To replace a global data distributing exchange, one would create a
> > zsocket on one side and zs_bind() it, have the clients connect
> > to it with zs_connect(), and then the data would be distributed to
> > all connected clients automagically, right?
>
> Exactly.
>
> > Do you have any estimates on when the zsock is functional enough to
> > play with?
>
> If you'll do with basic C/Linux/TCP functionality I would expect
> there'll be something to look at next week or so. Other
> language/OS/protocol bindings will be added later on.
>
> > Oh, how do zsock and zeromq relate to each other? Are they completely
> > separate projects or is zsock going to be used in zeromq at some point?
>
> Yes. The idea is to make zeromq a thin wrapper over zsock. The only
> thing that zeromq will add to the functionality is locating the
> components using symbolic names instead of addresses. In short:
>
> zsock + directory service = zeromq
>
> Martin
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