SRP has value in many regards but it hasn't been promoted. The market
niche for efficient binary portability is very small. Most people tend
to use non-portable binary serialization that comes with their ST
dialect or they use XML when efficiency isn't critical. I haven't
touched the code for several years. It is released under a license where
anyone is welcome to take it over.
The version published to the public StORE dB may be an early release.
Code had been posted on SourceFORGE (http:/sourceforge.net/projects/srp)
and most recently at StS when it was held in Seattle. The version at StS
was distributed on CD and published to a URL that is now dead. I'd have
to dig up the code myself. I recall working on an off-by-one encoding
bug in some of the most recent versions (perhaps not released though).
Sorry, I lost interest in the project after it was finished and given
away. If you are looking for additional documentation then look for
class-side methods named #documentation.
Paul Baumann
-----Original Message-----
From: Runar Jordahl [mailto:
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Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:04 PM
To: VWNC,
Subject: State Replication Protocol (SRP)
"State Replication Protocol (SRP) is a multi-dialect framework for
binary serialization of object state." SRP seems to have functionality
that is not found in BOSS.
SRP can be loaded from the public Store DB:
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/publicRepository/PlbStateReplicationProtocol.html
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/publicRepository/SrpPortableObjectRepresentations.html
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/publicRepository/SrpTests.htmlThe code has not been updated since 2004 on the public Store DB. Is it
so that this framework is no longer maintained?
Is the version on the public Store DB kept up with the latest version of
SRP for other dialects?
Is anyone still using SRP?
Read more about SRP here:
http://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~sohel/IMPP/references/About+State+Replication+Protocol+(SRP).html
http://www.whysmalltalk.com/Smalltalk_Solutions/sts2004/pdf/Baumann.pdfDoes anyone have more documentation than the pages I mention?
Kind regards
Runar
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