[erlang-questions] code mobility

[Dmitry Vasiliev]

21.10.2010 19:27, Jiansen He пишет:
> Thank you for your reply,
>
> code:load_binary/3 is what I used in one of my demo programs.  My code looks
> like this:
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> The above code will load client.beam to all nodes.  If I only want send
> client.beam to server, where the code is really executed, I can use
> rpc:call/4 instead.   There are two other trivial consideration in the above
> implementation.
>
> For one thing, I send the whole file to the server.  The function is sent
> with other irrelevant functions.
>
> For another thing, what if I want to send a complex function which employs
> functions from other modules?  Shall I know every details about the complex
> function and send involved files myself?  For example, isEven/1 is defined
> in E.erl and isOdd is defined in O.erl.  Both files are well documented
> because the functionality and usage of each function are clearly specified.
>   Programmers could use isEven and isOdd as APIs.  What users don't know (and
> don't need to know) is, how isOdd and isEven is implemented.

Maybe you need to take a look at erl_boot_server module or implement 
some "on demand" remote module loading yourself?

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