Re: [boost] active objects implementation request for comments

From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-06 20:17:09

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On Tuesday 06 March 2007 16:54 pm, Jason Turner wrote:
> It was only after setting out to implement the project did I realize
> that this concept had been published a few years back under the name
> "Active Object" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Object) and there
> are a couple of similar implementations floating around.

I've written a little active object framework too.  In fact, it was what I 
was working on which led to me getting quite sidetracked on thread-safe 
signals.  But now that I'm wrapping that up, I should be able to release 
my code soon.  It works, I just haven't released it because I haven't 
written any documentation yet.  I basically just combined ideas from the 
active object paper by Lavender, et. al., the ACE implementation, and 
boost, and added some syntactic sugar.  I didn't try to provide a full 
active object class like you did.  I provide active functions, futures, 
method requests, schedulers, and it is up to the user to combine a set of 
active functions with a scheduler and a servant object to produce their 
own full active object.

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Frank
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