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[Trustin Lee]

Hi César,

Hmmm.. I think you already know the answer. I hope you made a great choice! :)

Looking from your scenario, you can definitely do that with Netty.  I guess you are already playing with Netty according to your recent question.  Please let us know if you encountered any difficulties.

Thanks for your interest,

On Fri, 22 May 2009 04:44:12 +0900, César Fernando Henriques <cesar at alttab.com.ar> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm working on a project and I need to decide what framework to use,
> Netty, MINA or Grizzle... I have the following scenario:
>
> 1) A Proxy Server or Gateway running in internet that allow mobile
> phones to access resources and services on PC/Servers behind
> firewall/nat
>
> 2) A Daemon Agent running on the PC or Server that connect to the
> Gateway (outbound connections only) and wait for messages from the
> gateway signaling that someone need data, to make it simple, the
> Daemon create another paralel connection to the Gatreway for every new
> user wanting to connect to the daemon (mmm I don't think this is a
> good approach, I read somewherer that http 1.1 encourage to not open
> more than 2 connections from the same client I can make N connections
> depending on the number of users actives on the Daemon).
>
> 3) A mobile phone that make http get/post request to the gateway to
> access the daemon resources.
>
> II have been playing with mina a couple of days, and really like the
> approach for managing protocol and messages, the problem is that the
> APIs to manage http protocol seems to be not supported or dead.. I
> mean there is a couple of classes like HttpMessage, HttpRequest,
> HttpResponse but loking at the code don't seems to be following a good
> pattern.. I don't know.. I don't liked what I see there... ;-)
>
>  I have been playing with Grizzle another couple of days... I really
> like what I see in relations of managing the http protocol, sessions,
> etc...the simple GrizzleWebServer and the possibilitie of scale to
> glassfish in case I need load balancer, clustering, etc. but was very
> dificult to get a simple example using comet up and running, and I
> don't see very clear how to start building a robust solutions with
> Grizzle (IT's very big and complex!!!!)
>
> So I end up looking at Netty, I have download the sources and running
> some testing with HttpServer and HttpClient, I really liked!!!
>
> I need to make a choice, could you guys help to decide what framework
> is the best suitable for my requeriments (Please let the feelings
> aside ;-) ).
>
> I really like the idea of Grizzle running on top of GlassFish... and
> likes Netty simple Api.... wuaaaa!!!!! I don't know what do to!!!!!
>
> Another couple of requeriments to take in mind, I need compression
> filter, SSL, and a custom protocol on top of HTTP, Should be great to
> have a chain to encode decode messages on top of HttpRequest and
> HttpResponse, something like AutheticationRequest,
> AuthenticationResponse, ProvisioningRequest, etc.
>
> The Messages Data, (aka custom http body) must be encrypted, so online
> the Daemon and the mobile could decrypt, I'm planning on J-PAKE or
> DiffieHellman key exchange.
>
>
> I hope you guys can help to decide what framework fit better for my  
> project.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Cesar.-
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