Presents Notes -*- outline -*- * TODO Pass cause back to client somehow via FailureResponse in Client.requestFailed clientWillLogff becomes clientMayLogoff? Look into nbio waking up all sockets when any data comes in. (maybe) Allow piggybacking of object subscription onto service defined responses (like moveTo request). (maybe) Allow better server side control of subscription management (to ensure that clients don't remain subscribed to objects they should no longer be susbcribed to; like scenes they've departed from). Sort out support for server-side modifiable only fields to DObject. Create a CompoundEvent that allows packaging up of multiple events to be dispatched in unison. Build dobj source generator and have it add versions of all update methods that take a compound event to which to append the event rather than dispatching them directly. Maybe make AuthResponseData a Streamable instead of a DObject. Have the LocationRegistry register the LocationProvider rather than doing it via a config file. Perhaps lose the config file element altogether. * Server-side event concentrator The client objects will not subscribe directly, but will subscribe through the concentrator so that, at least, it can create a single ForwardEventNotification for each Event being dispatched to a group of clients. Optimally, it would be able to flatten that notification as well and the byte array can be written to the socket of each of the individual clients rather than creating a separate byte array for each client. This will require a special "flattened notification" that can be inserted into the queue to preserve message ordering but then is simply sent rather than flattened and sent. * Marshaller Consider how the dobject marshaller deals with classes loaded and reloaded using flushable classloaders. Also consider whether access to the marshaller cache needs to be synchronized. * Check into "connection closed by peer" thread exiting on client * TypedObjectFactory Maybe modify so that types are assigned automatically even if everything has to be registered in a single place, since it pretty much does anyway. * Client network mgmt Client perform all network ops on own thread, will call back to main code through Observer interface to notify of state changes in the authentication process/connectedness: public interface ClientObserver { public void didConnect (); public void connectionFailed (); public void didLogon (); public void logonFailed (); public void didDisconnect (); public void didLogoff (); } * DObject class generation Distributed objects are defined like a class with a set of public data members which is then converted into an actual class with get/set methods for each member. public dclass GameObject { public int[] players; public String description; } becomes public class GameObject extends DObject { public void setPlayers (int[] players); public void setPlayersAt (int index, int value); public int[] getPlayers (); public int getPlayersAt (int index); public void setDescription (String description); public String getDescription (); }