[Rprotobuf-yada] rpc over http

[francoisromain at free.fr]

I'm not much further. It is a shame we've built all this and we don't know how to demo it ... 

I was thinking somthing like remote random generations but that's not much more exciting. 

I think this can be a good citizen in the HPC world, but I would not use it to send self describing structures because I think it is all about client and server agreeing about the format. 

I might get impatient and wrap up the little java server I wrote with rjava and factor it out when r can serve by itself. 

One other thing I'll play with (this is much later) is a graphics device that would send drawing requests around as protobuf messages. Similar to xgd but based on protobuf. 

Romain



------Message d'origine------
De: Dirk Eddelbuettel
À: Romain François
Cc: rprotobuf-yada at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
Envoyé: 9 déc 2009 17:00
Objet: Re: [Rprotobuf-yada] rpc over http


On 9 December 2009 at 13:51, Romain François wrote:
| Do you have some ideas of methods that we could use to demonstrate how 
| this works. Echo is very boring.

Darn good question. I was mulling over that commuting in but have no great
answer. So for something for R: "Something to do with data" -- or maybe ship
a dataset and a formula and get a result back?    But maybe my thinking is
tainted by playing too much with HPC...

I still think of RProtoBuf as a super-duper config mechanism so I am just
happy to send self-describing structures around.  

Dirk

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