[openamq-dev] The iCL Class Syntax - undefined

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Dec 7, 2007 10:43 AM, blog <blog at yankeeboysoftware.com> wrote:
>
> As a relatively experienced C/C++ developer, I was surprised when I
> encountered this web page http://www.openamq.org/doc_wireapi.html, and
> was presented with a new term 'iCL Class Syntax'.
>
> Strange, I thought, I have never heard of that.  I looked around the
> OpenAMQ website for a definition, and when that failed I resorted to our
> friend Google (http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=iCL+Class
> +Syntax&as_eq=OpenAMQ) which was no help either.
>
> I would greatly appreciate some description of the iCL Class Syntax,
> since as the OpenAMQ documentation states "knowledge of iCL will make
> your life easier".  In my case, any knowledge of this mysterious syntax
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Or did you guys just make it up ?

Yes, we made this up.  OpenAMQ sits on a fat stack of iMatix
technology, all built to let us produce large, reliable C applications
like OpenAMQ without going insane.  iCL is a part of this stack.  You
won't see it documented on the wider Internet because it's not used
outside our own apps, though it is fully reusable and GPLd.

(Let's just say that for non-trivial cases of X, it's easier to build
a toolkit and then an application X on the toolkit, than to build X
without a toolkit.)

There is more explanation of iCL on the imatix.com site.  I'm sorry
the technologies are not better documented and more widely used.  We
were, and still are, focusing on delivering OpenAMQ as a totally
reliable product.

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Pieter Hintjens
iMatix