[Arianne-devel] CodeBaseInvestigation

[Heath B. <hea...@ho...>]

Believe it or not I have been working on the CodeBaseInvestigation 
continually for the past two weeks - updating the Wiki whenever I finish a 
group of files.  I have not seen any activity from an other people since it 
started.

You can view the progress here:

http://html.dnsalias.net:1123/CbiTaskList

Lately I have been plowing through the multitude of managers and am about to 
venture into the world/zone/rp section of the code.  At that point I should 
be done with the server code.

A few observations:
+ The simple support modules are clean.
+ Design pattern concepts are used in many places.
- Some of the higher level code is very coupled and tough to follow.
- Some design pattern implementations are unorthodox.
- WAY too many threads.

In general I would say that the code matches the design documents, 
particularly the onion communication model.  The problem I see with the 
design is that it results in a bunch of message conversion (3 types of 
messaging:GenericMessage, Message, and Command) and routing.

The high level design is thoughtfull but the low level implementation is 
generic and flexible thus very complex - property bags and typeless data 
streams everywhere - almost like someone did not know what to expect.

I hope to have the server side code done this week.  At that point I will 
reconsider doing the client side code.

Heath

-Code humbly.


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