Announcement: Stomperl 0.0.1
December 12th, 2007
Dear all,
Stomperl 0.0.1 (the first preview release) is out.
Stomperl [http://code.google.com/p/stomperl/] is an implementation of Stomp [http://stomp.codehaus.org/] broker with Erlang. That means performance, scalability, reliability and elegance in concurrent programming are our goals. And since Stomp is simple enough, it's a good start point to learn Erlang/OTP programming.
Version 0.0.1 is the first preview release. The main purpose is to gather feedbacks from the community. So far it supports basic elements in Stomp protocol: CONNECT, DISCONNECT, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEND and RECEIPT. It passes acceptance tests built with both Java and Perl clients. That's why I consider it as "usable" and decide to announce it.
To give Stomperl a try (NOTE: EUnit later than 2.0 beta is required):
- Check it out with Subversion:
svn checkout http://stomperl.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.0.1/ stomperl-0.0.1 - Kick off the broker:
make startup - Now you can connect to the broker at port 61613. However I suggest you run the test suite first:
make test
What's next? I suppose Stomperl will support full Stomp protocol in its 0.0.2 version, along with a better test coverage. We will do more acceptance test, compatibility test and performance test in the future. But first, any suggestion and feedback would be highly appreciated.
Stomperl: Stomp with Erlang
December 7th, 2007
Stomperl is an attempt to build something not-so-that-non-trivial (in this case, a Stomp server) with Erlang. To kick it off, I stole the server architecture from here and here. Currently it doesn't even support the full protocol: only CONNECT, SUBSCRIBE and SEND commands are supported. But anyway, it's moving forward and I'm learning from it.
To make it run:
make test, which hopefully succeeds.make start, then you'll get an Erlang console.- In the Erlang console,
tcp_server_sup:start_server(). - In another shell console,
make acceptance, which hopefully succeeds.
I created an extremely simple acceptance test with Gozirra.
What's the next? Well, I suppose I'll implement the full protocol, and fix some defects. As a newbie to Erlang, I made and am making stupid mistakes. Welcome to be stupid together with me.
