Archive for December, 2006

Rio service talking to humans over Jabber

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

I’ve been experiencing a bit with integration between Rio services and instant messaging services. What I’ve been able to do so far is illustrated on the following screenshot:

The JSB opens a Jabber connection (with the help of Smack) with an iChat server (which is also a Jabber server), creates (or joins) a chatroom, invite some […]

Jini/Rio training — Day 3

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

The last day of the training was oriented towards grid computing. I began by demonstrating a space-based grid computing platform (running two different kind of jobs). The nice thing about this demonstration is that is it a perfect example in order to illustrate some key functionalities of Jini and Rio such as: the workers do […]

Jini/Rio training — Day 2

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

The second day of the training was much better than the first day. Trainees were able to adapt the first example I explained them yesterday (simple Echo Jini service).
I asked them to write a Add service, adding two integers. They had to write the whole thing: a smart proxy (simply dumping log statements and calling […]

Jini/Rio training — Day 1

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

I have been teaching Jini and Rio (in French) this week for some consultants working for StepInfo. The training was spread over 3 days, starting from 7.30pm to 9.30pm (although the first two days finished at 10.30pm). Day 1 was mostly a theory session while the two other days were practice.
Overall the training as been […]

Updated JiBX plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

The plugin has been updated to JiBX version 1.1.
Make sure your project also uses JiBX 1.1 though.