SharedMemConnection code (Windows only)

[PeterK]

I've finished the SharedMemConnection class, that uses shared memory for communication and can be used as an drop-in replacement for TcpIpConnection (well, almost, doesn't have a port parameter). Compared to TcpIpConnection it performs better for non-persistent connections, since setup costs for shared memory is negligible compared to sockets (at least under Vista, where it was tested).

The code can be downloaded here:
http://www.elementec.de/download/code/shared_mem_connection.zip

I have placed the code in the contrib project, then it can be used like this:

#include <ulxmlrpcpp/contrib/smem_connection.h>

elementec::SharedMemConnection aConn(bIs_Server,"advertisedName");
ulxr::HttpProtocol aProt(&aConn,"advertisedName",0);

The implementation is currently only for Windows, I have marked all places with platform-specific code with a #pragma message. Please feel free to complete the code for other platforms.

Peter

[Ewald Arnold]

Hello,

nice to receive this contribution :-) I already added it to the repository. I will try to create a small test case and maybe in the future port it to unix.

I plan to release a new version soon and will then include the files :-)

greets

[PeterK]

> I plan to release a new version soon

What is you time frame for the release?

I'm asking beacause I'd also like to contribute my wxWidgets fixes. I have also planned to improve the caching mechanism of the http server (add some caching strategy, make it configurable (e.g. during web development, I need to turn off caching) , increase lookup speed by using a hash_map instead of a list, etc.)
So, if I knew, when you plan to release, I could try to submit my additions in time.

BTW, I have planned to use ulxmlrpc in my product "elementec IncidentManager", which is a enterprise application for business continuity management. ulxmlrpc will be used for IPC, as well as for the built-in HTTP server.

Cheers,
Peter

[Ewald Arnold]

Hello,

there is no deadline for the release, it is just that the last official release is 6 months ago :-) and there were serveral more or less useful changes since then.

I assume you know how to get the sources from svn, so you can read file ChangeLog so see what happened.

BTW: if you want to keep in touch, you may as well email me personally and in german :-)

greets