Many Thanks

- --J

        connection :ExternalReadAppendStreamExternalReadAppendStream= ExternalConnection new.
        connection input: socket; output: socket.
        stream := ExternalReadAppendStream on: connection

then you can use the stream with BOSS :
if 'o' is your BOSSable object :

        (BinaryObjectStorage onNew: stream) nextPut: o; close

Of course there has to be an object at the other side of the socket,
listening and ready to rebuild the object with BOSS.

Francis Wolinski
Informatique CDC
Bagneux - France
33-1 46 63 94 03

Just open a BOSS stream on the socket stream.  Don't expect BOSS to be much
faster on sockets, though.

-dms

| boss o  bytes  bossIn object  |
        "Construct an arbitrary object"
        o := OrderedCollection new.
        100 timesRepeat: [o add: Random new next].

        "create a fresh local boss object"
        boss := BinaryObjectStorage onNew: (bytes := ByteArray new: 1000) writeStream.

        "put the object on this byte array"
        boss nextPut: o.
        boss close.

        "create a boss object  on the byte stream"
        bossIn := BinaryObjectStorage onOldNoScan: bytes readStream.

        "read object"
        object := bossIn next.
        bossIn close.

        "inspect the result"
        object inspect

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If you use a socket then you perhaps also want to add some
info about the length of the bytes that constitutes the
byte array of the bossed package.
But that is trivial!

Regards,

Bjorn Eiderback

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mike.

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I have used this as the basis for broadcasting changed objects to client
workstations. This, however, is really an interim solution. We are
looking at CORBA to solve the distributed object problem.

Sherman