Re: Ada Networking (General/Design)

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:12:23 -0700 (PDT), Marc C wrote:

> On Monday, August 13, 2012 7:33:28 AM UTC-5, Patrick wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone have a favourite approach to TCP/IP ?
> 
> After years of working with TCP/IP sockets, my favorite approach now is...not to. Not directly anyway.
> 
> There are higher-level messaging protocols that handle most, if not all,
> of the socket management details for you.

Hmm, there is not that many things you needed to manage sockets. Setting or
clearing TCP_NO_DELAY is not a huge problem, or?

> Among them are ZeroMQ (http://www.zeromq.org),

Does this really implement protocols, e.g. DLMS, ModBus etc? I didn't read
the documentation, but it looks rather like some text messaging or
middleware stuff on top of some transport like TCP, than a protocol
implementation generator tool (if that were possible).

> If I never have to write another setsockopt(), c_select(), and accept() again, I'll be very happy :-)

If Ada provided higher level socket library with an integrated support of
protected objects and tasks...

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