RE: hub compliance - dropping ports

[Broadfoot, Kieran J]

Kevin,

I wouldn't worry, I "suffer" from the exact same issues wrt to my
emails ;-)

As I said in my previous email I have a few ways of making the hub more
responsive to heartbeats. I did consider wrapping patricks OCX as an XS
module in perl however there isnt currently a solaris port hence I needed
something more portable. Once Ive resolved the issue with the loopback on
win32 (which Im suspecting is something im doing wrong) ill have portable
code that works on multiple platforms without any rebuilding.

Talking of portable code I did find
<a href="http://search.cpan.org/author/AUTRIJUS/PAR/";>http://search.cpan.org/author/AUTRIJUS/PAR/</a>
which will allow me to publish
perl apps as standalone executables for multiple platforms which is v.
neat!

Im developing primarily on solaris 9, win2k and TINI for the java code.

Im afraid Im a RIO owner like MarkH hence I was planning on xap enabling
the
mock server which is what I use to support my devices. If someone wants to
loan me a slim im sure I could add some xap support although im sure it
might take me a while ;-)

I have not seen Bruce's MH code so I couldn't comment although by all
accounts I suspect its more reliable and complete!

thanks
kieran

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Subject: RE: [xAP_developer] hub compliance - dropping ports


Yeah sorry about the first 'opus'- I'm away from home in the middle of
nowhere (N.Yorks) with little to do - hence my recent babble on the lists.
It's that or reading nursery rhymes / chanting 'mint sauce' at the sheep.
Bear in mind I'm an electronics engineer really and only a software
'hobbyist'.

I don't think that the regularity of the heartbeats is too much of
an issue - bar the issue of a hub dropping a local application which
currently is the only consequence - if you can avoid perhaps a doubling of
the heartbeat interval and increase your intervals in the header that
should
work fine. Of course anything you can do to make it more regular is much
nicer.

I assume you don't have the Active X support libraries for Perl -
from Active State I think ? If so you could use Patricks OCX which handles
the loopback correctly - are you developing on a Win32 OS ? Sounds like
your
infrastructure is well in place already though.

Nice to have you on board anyway - there seems to be a lot more
happening with xAP just at the moment and some exciting things on the near
horizon.

Perl code will be a great asset - we have a constant plea from Slim
Devices to add xAP natively to their open source SliMP3 server (written in
Perl) - Max I think maybe looking at this so that will be good. I don't
suppose by any chance you own a SliMP3 do you Kieran - if not they're great
devices you know ;-) I am not sure what state the released Misterhouse xAP
Perl code is in either..


Kevin