[erlang-questions] Integrating Erlang and OpenSAF

[robert]

Note: this is a repost as my original attempt never made it.  Sorry for any
confusion.  -- robert

I'm pretty much the Java editor for SAF and have some visibility into
alternative language mappings for SAF.  Right now, the only official SAF
mappings are C and Java (with a higher level Java interface standardized via
the JCP). There is some work going on in OpenSAF with a scripting language
(Perl? Python?) ('cause it's easy and was sort of a side-effect of test
frameworks, as I understand). 

I don't know if Erlang interfaces exist in certain companies, even as
Ericsson is a major participant in SAF and OpenSAF. Maybe someone from
Ericsson will speak up? 

I've been thinking about using Erlang/Mnesia for implementing parts of SAF:
the IMM service. Still in the thinking stage.  It would also be interesting
to consider the correspondence between OTP and the SAF Availability
Management Framework. 

Certainly it is possible to integrate Erlang with SAF .. it's just software
;-)  Erlang can certainly handle the "escapes" to native transports. 
Moreover, SAF is very much built on a location transparent, client/servers
w/callbacks model which fits well with Erlang/OTP. 

For the concrete case of OpenSAF (an open source implementation of the SAF
standards), the Java mapping was done with JNI wrappers.  Not sure how this
approach would play with Erlang.  It is seductive to think that API's can
wrapped and integrated into a single process while preserving semantics,
behavior, and safety.  I'd personally opt for a well defined message
protocol, but the SAF standardization is based on an API.


Frank (Usenet) wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to get up to speed with the SAF (Service Availability
> Framework - HA middleware) implementation OpenSAF
> (http://www.opensaf.org/)
> and I was wondering if there were ways to integrate Erlang with it?
> 
> They already seem to provide APIs for Java and C. Since Ericsson seems to
> be
> backing both OpenSAF and Erlang (
> http://www.ericsson.com/article/open_source_1714451213_c), an Erlang
> implementation might make sense as well :)
> 
> 
> P.S. I've been trying to send this email through another email account and
> it didn't seem to make it to the list. If it does make it in the end then
> I'm sorry for the multiple posts...
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank
> 
> 

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