Call a script over the network
I have a Python script on a box that I want to call from a Java server, over the network. I know that I can start a server on the Python side and then connect to it from the Java site, but I am trying to see if there is a way to avoid the overhead of running a server on the Python side. Is there any other way of doing it?
When are RPC-ish approaches more appropriate than REST?
After watching this talk on REST, Reuse and Serendipity by Steve Vinoski, I wonder if there are business cases in greenfield projects for (XML-)RPC-ish setups, that REST could not solve in a better way.
How we call an RPC that not only calls external functions but also updates data structures?
I have a simple C++ RPC that lets you have remote class instances that support live members (data structures) update as well as method calls. For example I had a class declared like this (pseudocode):
Building an RPC framework
I’m curious about what it takes to build a simple and robust RPC framework. I’ve only looked at a few ruby frameworks but they are all lacking in some way. What I want out of an RPC framework is some kind of registration/discovery mechanism and a simple plugin architecture. Pretty much all the frameworks out there provide a simple plugin mechanism but I haven’t found one that provides a simple discovery mechanism. The only one that does provide something in terms of discovery is MCollective but that has its own set of issues that I’ve run into while trying to use it at work.
Why does Java require a servlet container for simple RPC service?
I have a big database controller which is written in Java. The controller reads information from the database, and interprets it into data structures which are then displayed in a CLI.
Why would Java app make RPC call to itself?
I am working with a multithreaded homegrown multi-module app in my new job. We use the the Thrift protocol to communicate RPC calls between different stand-alone applications in a distributed system. One of them listens on multiple ports and I just noticed that it actually makes an RPC call to itself from one thread invoked from one socket it listens to (web service call) to another port within the same app. I verified that it could accomplish the same thing if it just went and directly called the method that the remote procedure ultimately invokes as it is all within the same application, same JVM. To make it even more mysterious, the call is completely synchronous, i.e. no callbacks involved. The first thread totally sits and waits until it makes a call across the wire to itself and comes back.
Which HTTP verb should I use to trigger an action in a REST web service?
I am implementing a RESTful web service and one of the available actions will be reload. It will be used to reload configurations, cache, etc.
Java 1.7 library with a Java 1.5 program – what are the options
I have a class library which is compiled with JDK 1.7 It uses several 1.7 features and classes and would be very difficult to get it recompiled in JDK 1.5.