[erlang-questions] Help my with Chat System

[Joe Armstrong]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Summer nguyen <summer0nguyen@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hello experts,
> My job is implementing a Chat System between a Web user ( Comet client) and
> a Swing Desktop Client.
> After searching google, I found a topic of a Facebook Engineer that make me
> choose Erlang:
> http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=14218138919
>
> So I'm very new to Erlang and Thrift.
> After studying , Here is my solution:
>
> Comet Server ( using Erlang)
>
> Accept Comet Clients
> If the client is New, Call Processing Server  using Thrift to generate an ID
> for him.
> Store Response Object in a Dict using the abobe ID
> Get Message from Comet Client and Call Processing Server  using Thrift to
> send Message to Swing Desktop Client
> Open a Thrift Server Service (1) that listen from Processing Server action:
> send message to ID xxx ( and then response to the right comet Client)
>
> Processing Server ( Using Java)
>
> Accept Swing Desktop Client
> Open a Thrift Server Service (2) that listen from Comet Server actions:
> generate ID, send message ( and then Send to Swing Desktop Client)
> Receive message from Swing Desktop Client , then Call Comet Server  using
> Thrift to send Message to Comet Client
>
> Please give me advice if Erlang have a better solution for me.
> If you don't understand my idea, please tell me. My english is not good.
> Thank you very much.

Why would you want to use Comet? If you write the swing client yourself you can
open a direct socket to the Erlang server. Is there any good reason
for using comet?

Comet is a mess - it solves a problem that should not exist in the first place.
Using symmetric by-direction sockets is far easier.

If direct sockets is unacceptable - then use http websockets.

Comet is a technology that should become obsolete - the only reason
for using Comet
that I can think of is you have a legacy system that uses Comet.

/Joe


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> HCMC University of Technology
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