To use or not to use Netty

[Ngoc Dao]

As far as I know, Netty does not provide something like
Response finalResponse = response1 + response2 + response 3;

You should look at Camel?
http://camel.apache.org/

Ngoc


On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Shardul Bhatt <shardul.bhatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I came across Netty when I was trying to look for solutions to one of my
> project requirements. I have gone through the Netty documentation but am not
> sure if Netty is the framework which fulfills my requirements.
>
> Please find below the details of the problem I am trying to solve and
> advise.
>
> 1. *The web based application I am working on would send
> requests(asynchronously) to multiple 'service providers' looking for data
> based on the search query.*
>
> 2. The providers would return results in various formats from XML to HTML
> with varied time lapses. This means it is always possible that I would not
> have all the data to display in a single go.
>
> 3. As I start receiving data/search results, I would need to parse the
> responses(XML/HTML) and translate data in the format suitable for display.
>
> 4. I intend to use a Java implementation of 'Memcached' for storing all data
> before it is displayed to the user.
>
> I intend to explore and evaluate various options and wanted to know if Netty
> is a framework which can help take care of 'sending async requests' to
> various servers. I could always use multithreading in Java, but using a
> framework would always be a preferred choice.
>
> It would be something like
>
>   /try{
>
>        Response response1 = send(Request1);
>        Response response2 = send(Request2);
>        Response response3 = send(Request3);
>
>        Response finalResponse = response1 + response2 + response 3;
>        displayResults(finalResponse);
>
>    }catch(...){
>       .......
>    }/
>
> I want the requests to be sent asynchronously. Is this something that Netty
> can accomplish? Please advise.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Shardul.
>
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