The LWES Light Weight Event System is a framework for allowing the
exchange of information from many machines to many machines in a
controlled, platform neutral, language neutral way. The exchange
of information is done in a connectless fashion using multicast
or unicast UDP, and using self describing data so that any
platform or language can translate it to it's local dialect.
This leads to a system with the following features
* Fire and Forget messaging
* Decoupling of senders (emitters) from receivers (listeners, journallers)
* Centerless, no single point of failure
* Support for many to many communication where nodes can enter
and leave the system at any time.
* Computer language and hardware platform independent
The system consists of two major components
Emitter - a source of events, this is usually a server or process
which wants to announce something
Listener - a sink of events which deserializes and processes events
on the fly as they are received.
There is also a custom listener which defers deserialization until some
point in the future, and simply captures and writes the events to a log.
This is in the lwes-journaller package, and is called a journaller.
This library is the C implementation of the LWES. There are also
wrappers for various scripting languages, and a pure java implementation
packaged separately.
All are wire format compatible.
For more information on developing with the LWES see
http://www.lwes.org
Mac Install Commands
git clone https://github.com/lwes/lwes.git
cd lwes
./bootstrap && ./configure --disable-hardcore && make && make check
sudo make install