Re: Ada Networking (General/Design)

[Marc C <mc.provisional@gmail.com>]

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.

Among them are ZeroMQ (http://www.zeromq.org), along with its Ada binding (http://www.zeromq.org/bindings:ada), and YAMI4 (http://www.inspirel.com/yami4).

I collected ZeroMQ, AMQP, and STOMP together into a set of text-oriented messaging interfaces called TOMI_4_Ada (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tomi4ada/). 

While you still have to be cognizant of things like host names and port numbers, by and large that's about the extent of what you need to be aware of when using these high-level protocols.

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

Marc A. Criley