Another Request for Serialization and Remoting in CF

Serialization and remoting support in embedded real-time
Windows CE apps is critical for us to be able to use .NET.
We feel that web services wouldn't be adequate for the
rich remote GUI's and event-handling support we'd like to
implement.

Our choices currently seem to be to use Windows XP with
real-time extensions (expensive and complex) or Java
(which we're using currently for managed threads, and
supports remote method invocation and serialization in
RTOS's including CE and VxWorks, but lacks some of the
great features of .NET). We'd be willing to pay a premium
for a less-compact Compact framework on Windows CE.

Is there any reason for us to hold out hope that
serialization and remoting might be implemented in some
extended form of the Compact Framework in the not-too-
distant future?

Carl
Fri Oct 24 08:49:45 CDT 2003


JAT wrote:
> Serialization and remoting support in embedded real-time
> Windows CE apps is critical for us to be able to use .NET.

Hi JAT,

the basis to implement serialization and remoting is
principally supplied in CF:


(1) CF supports reflection to analyse classes. It's
not too much work to implement your own serialization
framework, that uses reflection information to store
object data in your own format.

If you like to spare yourself the work, you may want to
take a look at our object database engine:
http://www.db4o.com


(2) CF supports TCP socket connections. You can use
these connections to execute code on other machines.

We have implemented our Client/Server functionality
on top of CF sockets, so you could run a db4o client
on a handheld that connects with a db4o server on
a PC to store objects there and even trigger code
execution (our messaging functionality).


In my opinion the CF team needs to be careful, not
to bloat the system. Otherwise it will get too big
and too slow.


My personal favourite feature request for CF:
Full synchronized/wait/notify support for threads.
( Monitor.Wait(), Monitor.Pulse() )


Kind regards,
Carl
--
Carl Rosenberger
db4o - database for objects - http://www.db4o.com

Martin
Fri Oct 24 08:51:01 CDT 2003


"JAT" <jtenney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:091801c39a2f$9ea771a0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Serialization and remoting support in embedded real-time
> Windows CE apps is critical for us to be able to use .NET.
> We feel that web services wouldn't be adequate for the
> rich remote GUI's and event-handling support we'd like to
> implement.
>
> Our choices currently seem to be to use Windows XP with
> real-time extensions (expensive and complex) or Java
> (which we're using currently for managed threads, and
> supports remote method invocation and serialization in
> RTOS's including CE and VxWorks, but lacks some of the
> great features of .NET). We'd be willing to pay a premium
> for a less-compact Compact framework on Windows CE.
>
> Is there any reason for us to hold out hope that
> serialization and remoting might be implemented in some
> extended form of the Compact Framework in the not-too-
> distant future?
>
Why not write your own?
At least you'd get what you want, not what someone else decides to give.