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Re: client of ozone idea

I added a small change to OIG to support packages and then proceeded to use
packages.  I am not aware of any problem.  OIG generates interfaces from your
OzoneObjects.

Joe Shevland wrote:

> Your experiences mirror mine... I've been righting the penultimate
> role-playing game for years now on the side :) I recently restarted it
> again using JDK1.3 this time... in about 1k more years it should be
> ready for beta :) I even found an old copy of Elite (best game ever for
> its time!) to fuel my enthusiasm.
>
> I was interested in the security question actually. It'd be nice to see
> 'pluggable' socket factories we can use e.g. an SSL-socket factory for
> encrypted links, a compression socket factory for BLOB's etc.
> Authentication on the server was also an area that needs looking at I
> think. Easier said than done of course ;)
>
> Actually I have a list of Nice Things to See(TM) that was prompted by
> reading the discussions on setting up a CVS server and tightening the
> management of Ozone. I think thats an excellent idea; when people can
> better grasp what is going on and who the right people to talk to are
> they will feel more inclined to dabble in the source code I guess.
>
> One thing I was waiting on was being able to generate Proxy objects
> (OPP) for classes in a package format e.g. com.kpi.foobar.* which isn't
> possible now (unless this has been fixed in 0.3.2?)
>
> Regards,
> Joe Shevland
> KPI Logistics
>
> Falko Braeutigam wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > > Ok, if I use ozone as my game server, how do I do the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > 1. How do I know - in my game server code which is now just
> > > objects inside ozone, when a user drops a connection?  I
> > > know ozone knows and closes the connection but how do
> > > I update the race objects as being "logged off"  Would
> > > putting code in the final method do this?  If a user has a
> > > proxy object in the client does it call some finalization
> > > code if they disconnect?
> > No, proxy and impl don't have any information about each other. There is no
> > direct "connection" between them. The Impl does not need to know and cannot
> > know the number of corresponding proxies. So no special "disconnect" method is
> > called.
> >
> > No again, putting code in the finalize() method is not the way to get access to
> > the state of the object in the database. In fact ozone tries to hide exactly
> > this information from the programmer.
> >
> > I suggest to make a logOff() method on the server object. This can be
> > explicitely called from the client when it is going down.
> >
> > > 2.  What is your best recommendation for security?
> > What security are we talking about? Server authentication, security of the
> > tranmission, other?
> >
> > > Yes, when I get a little farther , like I actually have a
> > > game that plays, you may list it.  But it is a few monthes
> > > away I fear.  If you want to you can say I am building it.
> > > I WILL complete it.  This has been a dream of mine for 10
> > > years.  I have started it several times in different
> > > languages and shapes.  I started it in Perl, C, C++ and now
> > > Java.  It will get done:)  It is based on Galactic Bloodshed
> > > which has been on the net for over 10 years.  It is old
> > > technology and I am the doctor:)
> > It will use ozone. So it may be interesting for other users to know that it is
> > there, the main goals, and how it uses ozone. That's all what I had in mind.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Falko
> > --
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > Falko Braeutigam                         mailto:falko@softwarebuero.de
> > softwarebuero m&b (SMB)                    http://www.softwarebuero.de
>
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