LUX4

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LUX4 is a super fast communication protocol that was developed in ERIS4 and now released as open source software.

LUX4 is aim to achieve the highest possible performances by keeping the protocol as simple as possible. It is by far the simpler RPC protocol and also probably one of the fastest also.

The library is pretty simple to use and well documented and comes also with an SDK that helps you developing your first clients and try them against a fake server.

At current development stage, LUX4 only allows function to pass String as parameters but as many other advantages:

1) The client side APIs allow automatic aggregation of multiple calls coming from different threads. This aggregation mechanism allows huge improvement in throughput

2) Server side implementation is very easy. You just need to implement an "handler" that define the semantics of your server and that's basically is it!

3) Multi-requests. LUX4 allows the client to send more request within the same invocation. This is also an important boost in performances because allows a better use of the TCP/IP packet.

In the future huge improvements are expected and luckily we will also get a C/C++ Client side implementation of the protocol. Server side is expected to be available only in Java.