AP4R, Asynchronous Processing for Ruby, initial release

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We are pleased to announce the FIRST release of AP4R.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/ap4r/

== DESCRIPTION

AP4R, Asynchronous Processing for Ruby, is the implementation of
reliable asynchronous message processing. It provides message
queuing, and message dispatching.

Using asynchronous processing, we can cut down turn-around-time
of web applications by queuing, or can utilize more machine power
by load-balancing.

Also AP4R nicely ties with your Ruby on Rails applications.
See HelloWorld sample application from rubyforge.

== INSTALLATION

sudo gem install ap4r

== FEATURES

  • Business logics can be implemented as simple Web applications,
    or ruby code, whether it’s called asynchronously or synchronously.

  • Asynchronous messaging are reliable by RDBMS persistence (now
    MySQL only) or file persistence.

  • Load balancing over multiple AP4R processes on single/multiple servers
    is supported.

  • Asynchronous processes are called via various protocols, such
    as XML-RPC, SOAP, HTTP PUT, and more. (now implemented just as
    XML-RPC)

== CHANGES

This is the first release!

== ACKNOWLEDGMENT

K.K. and S.S. are on the payroll of Future System Consulting Corp.
Japan.

–
Kato, Kiwamu [email protected]
Shinohara, Shunichi [email protected]

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On Sep 1, 2006, at 2:21 AM, [email protected]
[email protected] wrote:

queuing, and message dispatching.
Interesting. And the timing is nice, I’m just seriously looking into
this sort of thing now. How does your project relate to <http://
rubyforge.org/projects/reliable-msg/>?

Cheers,
Bob

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hutch/>
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On 9/1/06, Bob H. [email protected] wrote:

Interesting. And the timing is nice, I’m just seriously looking into
this sort of thing now. How does your project relate to <http://
rubyforge.org/projects/reliable-msg/>?

It’s built on top of reliable-msg.

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[email protected] wrote:

We are pleased to announce the FIRST release of AP4R.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/ap4r/

Neat. Are there any online docs?

–
James B.

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Interesting. And the timing is nice, I’m just seriously looking into
this sort of thing now. How does your project relate to <http://
rubyforge.org/projects/reliable-msg/>?

It’s built on top of reliable-msg.

Yes, it’s completely owe message persistence to reliable-msg.
Main additional function of first version is dispatching messages
to Web server via XML-RPC.
So, we can build system with async processing just writing web
application e.g. with rails.

Another function is load-balancing amoung reliable-msg servers.
But its rather naive implementation, and doesn’t work unless you
modify reliable-msg code a little.

Thank you for your interest!

Shinohara, Shunichi