RE: [Embedlets-dev] Global Light Blinker update (it works!)
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From: <be...@ea...> - 2003-08-12 10:05:20
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Congratulations Ted! - Looking forward to your posting the GLB code, and my trying it out (while I continue to struggle with Sean Kelly's tinijxta-1_0_2 ChatBot and TiniTalker examples). 8-) Anyway, ^5 !!! - Kelly Smith -----Original Message----- From: emb...@li... [mailto:emb...@li...]On Behalf Of Ted Kosan Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:38 PM To: emb...@li... Subject: [Embedlets-dev] Global Light Blinker update (it works!) Topic tags:[ARCH][JAPL][WIRING][DOCS][MGMT][STRATEGY][NEWBIE] _______________________________________________ After putting in the standard 'amazing amount of work' in over the past 3 weeks I am pleased to announce that: 1) The Global Light Blinker project has now been officially accepted by the JXTA community: http://globallightblinker.jxta.org 2) The software actually works! At 9:51 PM EST on Monday the latest version of the software successfully controlled a remote simulated light through the internet. The amazing thing is that the light was at a friend's house, I was at my house and we were both behind NAT boxes! To me the success of this experiment means that we can now monitor and control any device in almost any home or business from out on the internet. If we switch to JXTA's secure transport then we can also do this securely. As far as I am aware, we are the first group on the planet to achieve this using an open, secure and scalable networking technology and I think that we are well-poised to meet the demand of the potentially huge market that we have just opened up. The software is currently in the project's CVS (at jxta.org) and I hope to have the first alpha release ready to go by the end of the week. Andrzej: Thanks for all of the work you did on submitting well-thought-out and well-documented build.xml files (Ant Rocks! ;-) and directory structures for Embedlets, Outpost and Outhouse. I used these as models for the GlobalLightBlinker project with excellent results! I also relied heavily on your 'programming guidelines' document which I think made a significant difference too. The code still needs to be cleaned up a bit but this cleanup should be done by the end of the week. Chris: I had promised that as soon as I had the GLB project and software running that I would get back to you about the Embedlets software and ideas that you have submitted recently. I will be ready to pick this thread back up as soon as the GLB alpha release is finished later this week. My next area to focus on is to create a JXTA/Outpost interface and to build an Outpost based application that can be used to remotely monitor and control physical devices in the home (or business). I think that we need to work through the materials and issues you submitted earlier before we can move forward with this. James: It is still looking like an RS232/muvium based appliance controller is a good initial inexpensive way to go for the open lamp/appliance controller hardware. My thought is to make and disseminate an initial batch of 10 boxes, then follow this up with 100 boxes, then 1000 boxes. If we can actually hit the 1000 box goal I suppose that any further goals will take care of themselves. Bruce: In my mind the next logical step beyond the RS232/muvium boxes is Ethernet/TStik based boxes using HTTP based JXME. I think that as soon as people see the RS232 based boxes remotely controlling and monitoring things inside their homes (and businesses) that they will come up with all sorts of ideas for things to be remotely monitored and controlled that RS232 can not easily reach. TStik seems to be an excellent way to meet this need. Anyway, project JXTA's 'marketeer' has contacted me about doing a front page 'spotlight' article on the Global Blinker Project as soon as I am ready to submit the information. I think that the GLB project is extremely marketable and that it will be fairly easy to get articles about it into almost any or all of the major Java news sites (Java.net, JavaWorld, JavaLobby, etc.) and probably many non-Java news sites (like slashdot), but not just yet. I want move forward step-by-step so that if and when large numbers of people start taking notice of us that we have rock-solid software and hardware technologies to give them. Ted __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Embedlets-developer mailing list Emb...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/embedlets-developer |