Future standard GUI library

[Michael Torrie]

On 05/28/2013 11:26 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
>> Please give me an example of a "suitable transport layer for a RPC
>> protocol". 		 	   		  
> 
> I won't give you an example, but just some very basic criteria:
> 
> - It must be very efficient for very small "datagrams"

I won't argue for XML here, but sometimes space efficiency is simply a
premature optimization.

> - It must provide connections

How would you do this?  Connections can and do get dropped regularly.
To rebuild connections you need another layer to track them.

> - For asynchronous programming it must provide for callbacks

What do you mean by this?  A transport layer has nothing to do with
callbacks.  All a client can do is make the call, and wait for the
answer.  The client library can make it look asynchronous of course.
And I suppose one could implement an RPC system using UDP where answer
packets are dispatched as they come in.