[manni]

Hello,

is the goal from mango to build an application server like jboss?
I'am not an expert from Jboss, but i think about
somthing you can copy a jar or and ear file in a
directory and they called it in java "deployed".
After that, it is possible with rmi or soap to
use the a method's from the classes over soap or rmi.

I have see an xml-rpc implementation in mango, and
the pickle examples.
Maybe the ddl Project make it possible to load the new classes at runtime?
All this, show in this way.

It will be nice we have an application Server.

manni

[kris]

Hello Manni;

It's certainly possible to build an application server using Mango ~ most of the pieces are there already (demonstrated by xml-rpc, the servlet engine, and Eric's markup-server), but they don't currently support dynamic loading of new/changed application behavior (actually, Eric's server probably does since it is interpreter-oriented).

DDL will help enormously in this arena, allowing all manner of dynamic behaviour. I've been messing with a version of the servlet-engine, trying to get it working with DDL ~ no luck yet, but I imagine DDL will support that soon enough.

As for goals ~ Mango is intended to be a set of related libraries. Thus, while building a JBoss lookalike is not an explicit target, providing the tools to build something like that is definately within the scope of Mango.

Does that answer your question?