Re: [wxCode-users] wxAvahi & wxDNSSD

[William H. S. <whs...@ce...>]

Hello.

I've been doing a bit of research, and it appears that Vista supports  
a service discovery method called WS-Discovery.  I found  
documentation for it here:  http://specs.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/04/ 
discovery/ws-discovery.pdf  I know next to nothing about it, but my  
impression so far is that it's MS's attempt to replace Bonjour.

As far as Bonjour, I used O'Reilly's book for documentation:  http:// 
www.oreilly.com/catalog/bonjour/toc.html  There is a pdf of chapter  
seven as the sample chapter, which covers the C API, which was all I  
needed to implement what I did.


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Hank Schultz
Cedrus Corporation
http://www.cedrus.com/


On May 23, 2007, at 3:42 AM, Ishan Arora wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Howl says he is busy with come commercial product but he'll be  
> around if we need any help. For my purpose I only need service  
> discovery, and I don't know much about the Avahi and Bonjour APIs.  
> However I wouldn't mind making a general wrapper. I hope to learn  
> from wxAvahi and wxDNSSD. Please help me with the APIs. I have  
> submitted a request for wxZeroconf component on wxCode.
>
> Regards
> Ishan Arora
>
> On 5/22/07, Cursor < cu...@fr...> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am OK to develop a general wrapper on top of Avahi and Bonjour
> (perhaps Howl too ?).
>
> I think it is a better idea than the Bonjour compatibility layer of
> Avahi is not efficient as native one API.
> A wrapper can probably implement all common (and usefull) features and
> anyone who want to use very specific feature can use specific  
> wxDNSSD or
> wxAvahi lib.
>
> Regards.
>
> Emilien
>
>
> Le lundi 21 mai 2007 à 11:20 -0700, William H. Schultz a écrit :
> > Ishan,
> >
> >
> > Bonjour is also available for Linux, but I unfortunately do not  
> have a
> > Linux machine, so my code has not been tested.  The code appears  
> to be
> > working as expected on OS X and Windows, however.  wxDNSSD is  
> missing
> > documentation and a friendly build method; I've just been  
> building it
> > directly into my executable for the time being.
> >
> >
> > A wrapper would definitely be a good thing, but it shouldn't just  
> be a
> > wrapper on top of Avahi and Bonjour.  If there are any other  
> discovery
> > methods, they should also be taken into consideration (*cough*  
> *cough*
> > people near me *cough* *cough*).  I believe IPv6 includes service
> > discovery as well, so a wrapper API should take all of this into
> > consideration.  If it doesn't, then it will simply be replaced as  
> more
> > back-ends are needed.
> >
> >
> > I have another project I'm working on at the moment.  It may or may
> > not wind up being open-sourced in the long run, but it's likely  
> to use
> > wxDNSSD.  (That's code for "I'm really busy, so I may not be of much
> > use, but I'm always around.")
> >
> >
> >
> > Hank Schultz
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ps.  I've CC'ed this to the wxCode mailing list so that anyone
> > interested can offer input.
> >
> > -------------------------------
> > Hank Schultz
> > Cedrus Corporation
> > http://www.cedrus.com/
> >
> >
> >
> > On May 19, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Ishan Arora wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > First of all I want to tell you that wxAvahi and wxDNSSD are great
> > > contribution to zeroconf networking with wxWidgets, however  
> Avahi is
> > > only for Linux and OS X and not for windows. Apple's Bonjour
> > > supports Windows and OS X, and as far as I know Avahi comes with a
> > > binary emulating Bounjour on linux. I think these could be used to
> > > make a cross-platform Zeroconf wrapper for wxWidgets. Frankly
> > > speaking I really need it. I have a project that awaits a cross
> > > platform DNS Service Discovery solution for wxWidgets. Since there
> > > hasn't been much usable work on it so far, I want to make a  
> wrapper
> > > for cross-platform purpose. You also have a component in wxCode  
> on a
> > > similar topic. Would you like to help?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ishan Arora
> >
> >
> >  
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