Re: classes

[Alan Schmitt <aschmitt@vensac.inria.fr>]

Hi,

I've been away for a few days, with a broken laptop. This is why I
could not answer earlier. I'll be looking into this. At first look, it
does seem something wrong is happening, but I need to experiment a
little.

Alan Schmitt

>
>
>Hi,
>
>
>
>I'm currently experementing JoCaml as a target language for a compiler
>that my team is developping (it is an actor-based functional language).
>
>As I feel more at ease with programming classes and objects than
>automata, I'm designing my system with the OO features of JoCaml. 
>
>But, I face a behavior which seems strange to me (or, say, unexpected).
>I've got 2 programs: a server and a client. The server is implement as
>an object, it manages the connections from clients. The client program
>is just an object too, connecting to the server. Of course, there may be
>several clients. The server registers itself to the NS (jocns):
>
>let _ =
>  let jserver = new jserver () in
>  Ns.register "jserver" jserver vartype;
>  Join.server ()
>
>Note that the server contains a method [notify_site] that prints "***
>new container process connected" after each new client connection.
>
>
>Then, each client looks up the server, and tries to connect to it:
>
>let _ =
>  let manager = Ns.lookup "jserver" (vartype : jserver metatype) in
>  print_string "### connecting to the manager..."; flush stdout;
>  manager#notify_site Join.here; 
>  print_endline "connected"; flush stdout;
>  Join.server ()
>
>
>However, after running jocns and my server, here is what happens when
>I'm running a client:
>
>Querying name server shiva:20001
>### connecting to the manager...*** new container process connected
>connected
>
>As you can see, all the printings are done in the client's console,
>while I expected the server's printing to appear in its own console.
>I'm surprised because, as far as I understand, objects are in fact
>implemented as mobile instances of automatas. So they shouldn't migrate,
>unless I explicitely ask for it. The method calls should be kind of RPC.
>But here, it seems that the server migrates to the client, then does its
>job. Well, this is what I understand...
>
>Can anyone explain?
>
>Thanks,
>
>dc
>
>
>-- 
>David Chemouil [mailto:chemouil@enseeiht.fr] [mobile: 06 84 16 26 65]
>
>Laboratoire d'informatique et de mathématiques appliquées (IRIT-INPT)