Networking

Since a distributed systems framework is not very useful if it can not communicate with other machines, Kompics provides built-in networking support, of course. There are two kinds of deployment scenarios Kompics’ networking middleware is targeted at:

1. Local network or data centre deployments, where every node can directly communicate with every other node in the system, and
2. open internet deployments where some nodes can directly connect to certain nodes, but others are behind NATs.

Additionally, for both these scenarios Kompics supports the creation of virtual networks within a single JVM instance, which is often required by protocols that rely on probabilistic load distribtion, like distributed hash tables for example.

• Basic Networking
  • Messages, Addresses, and Headers
  • Serialisation
  • Distributed PingPong
  • Cleanup: Config files, ClassMatchers, and Assembly
    • Configuration Files
    • Message Matching Handlers
    • Assembly
• Virtual Networks
  • Channel Selectors
  • Virtual Network Channel
• NAT Support