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ROMP is the Ruby Object Message Proxy. It is sort of like drb
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(distributed Ruby) in that it allows a Ruby client program to
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transparently talk to an object that is sitting on a server. Its
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features include:
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- Up to 40000 messages per second
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- Allows more than one object to reside on the server; supports a sort
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for naming service for retrieving references to objects.
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- Fully thread-safe, provided the object sitting on the server is
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thread-safe.
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- Supports one-way calls, so the client does not have to block waiting
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for a response from the server.
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- Allows exceptions to be propagated from server to client; messages
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the backtrace to make debugging easier.
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Author: Paul Brannan (paul at atdesk.com)
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WWW: http://rubystuff.org/romp/
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