[Boost-users] Signals2 event broker framework

Subject: [Boost-users] Signals2 event broker framework
From: Michael Powell (mwpowellhtx_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-05 06:25:32

Hello,

I am interested to put an event broker system into practice in our
architecture.

Since we're using boost successfully already, Signals2 seems like the most
likely candidate.

At the moment, this is intra-process, most likely inter-thread but for now
that's not the concern. Just getting event signals from point A to points
B, C, D in pub/sub manner, however, is.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/doc/html/signals2.html

If I can abstract that out further, for instance I noticed there was an C#
event-like abstraction someone published as an add-on feature to boost a
little while back, handled subscriptions through +=, -= operator overloads,
that sort of thing, would be helpful, but probably not completely necessary.

If I can loosely couple subscribers from publishers is also desired.
Something like bbv EventBroker (
http://code.google.com/p/bbvcommon/wiki/EventBroker) is to C#. That'll keep
things nice and loosely coupled, so that if we ever need to get more
distributed (i.e. via a CORBA or ZeroC) we can potentially do so.

Regards,

Michael Powell