Some discussion about protocol independent proxies in the thread "Naming over Remoting 3" in the JBoss AS Development forum (http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4266845#...) has suggested to me the following idea. I'd like to be able to do something like | ... | Endpoint clientEndpoint = Remoting.createEndpoint("clientEndpoint"); | Protocol protocol = Remoting.getProtocol(url.getProtocol()); | protocol.registerClientTransport(clientEndpoint, clientExecutor, "localhost"); | Connection connection = clientEndpoint.connect(url), OptionMap.EMPTY).get(); | Client<String, String> client = connection.openClient("servicetype", "group", String.class, String.class).get(); | The idea is that 1. the protocol class hides the details involved in endowing an endpoint with the ability to communicate over a particular protocol, and 2. making the protocol class accessible this way would facilitate protocol neutral code. The org.jboss.remoting3.samples.socket.SocketProtocol class, for example, which is based on a similar class from an earlier sample protocol, looks more or less like this: | public class SocketProtocol { | | /** | * Register ConnectionProvider. | * This endpoint can be a socket transport client. | */ | static public <T, I, O> void registerClientTransport(final Endpoint endpoint, final Executor executor, final String host) { | ... | } | | /** | * Register ConnectionProvider and start its listening facility. | * This endpoint can be both a client and server for the socket transport. | */ | static public <T, I, O> Cancellable registerServerTransport(Endpoint endpoint, Executor executor, final String host, final int port) { | ... | } | | /** | * Register a service with an endpoint. | * This endpoint must be acting as a socket transport server. | */ | static public <I, O> void startService(Endpoint endpoint, Executor executor, SocketServiceConfiguration<I, O> socketConfig, final RequestListener<I, O> requestListener) throws IOException; { | ... | } | } | So, I'm suggesting abstracting that to an interface. WDYT? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4267127#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...