Re: BridgeWorks -> TIG

On 8/1/2024 8:20 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

I could not get BridgeWorks to work. And the VMS side was
VMS Alpha only. And the non-Java option for client side
was COM.
 But I do like the concept. So I tried creating something
similar that works with newer stuff. TIG (Transparent
Interface Generation).

Clients tested on Windows, but they should work fine on Linux as well -
standard Java/C#/C.
 I think the client code looks very reasonable.
 Question is whether it is worth continuing working on.
 Lots of outstanding work:
* comment code
* document wire protocol
* add support for more data types including VAX float
* add support for arrays outside of structs
* add Python client generation
* add C++ client generation
* add C server generation (there is not really any reason for
   server to be in Java except that it is easier to write a
   multi-threaded server in Java than in C)
 Thoughts?

* look at endianess for C# and C - the Java client is endian
   neutral, but the C# and C clients assume running on little
   endian
* add buffer size arguments to C client API - it is the 21st century
Arne