Spread Overview

Spread is a toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service that is resilient to faults across external or internal networks. Spread functions as a unified message bus for distributed applications, and provides highly tuned application-level multicast and group communication support. Spread services range from reliable message passing to fully ordered messages with delivery guarantees, even in case of computer failures and network partitions.

Spread is designed to encapsulate the challenging aspects of asynchronous networks and enable the construction of scalable distributed applications, allowing application builders to focus on the differentiating components of their application.

Powerful, but simple API. Only six basic calls are required to utilize Spread.

After reading the documentation this sounds really impressive. I’m going to need to play around with it to feel it out and find out if it has potential for any future projects.

Check out the platform and language support:

BSDI 4
Linux
Solaris
Irix 6.5.3 (MIPS)
AIX (powerpc)
FreeBSD (x86)
NetBSD (x86, ppc)
OpenBSD (x86)
Mac OS X (ppc)
Windows 95, 98
Windows NT, 2000, XP

C/C++ libraries with and without thread support.
Java Class to be used by applets or applications.
Perl interface.
Python interface.
Ruby interface.

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