Hi Patrik,
I believe "OPES box" should support a flexible set of APIs to allow the kind
of thing that you suggested - running 3rd part applications/services on a
common platform. That in fact is the strength of the open platform - to
allow a variety of services to be run locally or remotely.
- Rama
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lokomo [mailto:patrik(_at_)lokomo(_dot_)com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 7:35 AM
To: ietf-openproxy(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
Subject: OPES support for serv(e)lets?
Is it the intention of OPES to make the architecture support general types
of applications, by having a framework that allows a flexible set of APIs to
be used on OPES boxes? ( the idea: Applications must port safely but not
uniformly)
Assume following example (Java servlet implementation):
I've a simple server application executing on a web server. The application
delivers images to consumers over HTTP. The images are water marked by the
application before delivered to the consumer. The application performs the
water marking (generation of code and marking) process per request.
Will the OPES architecure allow me to put this application on a OPES box
(assuming that the box owner finds the APIs I need to be safe and therefor
supported)?
Thanx,
/Patrik