[erlang-questions] erlang/python,ruby,.. interfaces on tcp

Roberto Ostinelli roberto@REDACTED
Mon Aug 10 12:16:53 CEST 2009


On 10/ago/09, at 10:56, Robert Raschke wrote:

> Have you had a look into implementing the native Erlang messaging  
> protocol? The Jinterface Java code should be a good guide for this.
>
> And the binary format of Erlang terms is explained in http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/erl_ext_dist.html 
>  (forms section 8 of http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/part_frame.html) 
> . You could implement you own protocol, but use the Erlang term  
> format for the values.
>
> Robby

i believe this would definitely simplify the interfacing from erlang  
since it would only need term_to_binary/1, but it would make it rather  
complex on the recipient language..


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