MUSCLE
MUSCLE (Multi User Server Client Linking Environment) is an N-way messaging server and networking API. It includes client-side networking APIs for various languages, including C, C++, C#, Delphi, Java, and Python. MUSCLE lets programs communicate over a network via streams of serialized Message objects. The included server program ("muscled") lets its clients message each other and store information in its server-side hierarchical database. The database supports flexible queries via hierarchical wildcarding, and "live" updates via a subscription mechanism.
| Tags | Database Database Engines/Servers Software Development Libraries Application Frameworks Communications Java Libraries |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Revised |
| Operating Systems | BeOS Mac OS X Windows Windows Windows OS Independent POSIX |
| Implementation | C C# C++ Java Python |
Recent releases
- 17 Jun 2009 17:55
Changes: This version adds a ThreadLocalStorage API, extends the Thread API, adds multiple-send-destination support to the UDPSocketDataIO class, upgrades the GetNetworkInterfaceInfos() API, and has several other minor enhancements.
- 23 May 2009 00:27
Changes: This version improves signal handling a bit more, and redesigns the ChildProcessDataIO class so it is able to do "soft/hard shutdowns" (i.e. request that the child process quit, and then forcibly kill it if it doesn't comply in a certain number of seconds).
- 15 May 2009 20:56
Changes: This release features greatly improved IPv6 support, as well as as a simplified interface to the Message class (Message::Find*() methods that take by-reference arguments, and Message::Get*() methods). It also adds a feature to automatically include source code location hashes in log entries, more flexible signal handling, and the LogCallback API has been made simpler and more powerful. There are various bugfixes.
- 21 Mar 2009 03:51
Changes: This release adds better UDP support to the Java classes, a SegmentedStringMatcher class for convenient wild-card matching on segmented path strings, a number-aware string comparison function, and various other minor features and bugfixes. The Java classes have been repackaged from com.lcs.* to com.meyer.* to reflect a company name change.
- 28 Jan 2009 23:44
Changes: Many small improvements and bugfixes.
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Recent commentsMailing list created
FYI, there is now a MUSCLE mailing list covering development
and use of the MUSCLE toolkit. You can subscribe to it by
sending an email to with the word muscle-request@freelists.org
"subscribe" in the subject line, or you can search the mailing
list archives here.
Re: Rudimentary BeShare-compatible command line chat client available
> New version of Clyde is v1.04. It's
> been tweaked to compile with MUSCLE
> v1.30+.
You need to add QueryFilter.o and ByteBuffer.o to the Makefile to get it to compile with latest MUSCLE's.
Re: Rudimentary BeShare-compatible command line chat client available
New version of Clyde is v1.04. It's
been tweaked to compile with MUSCLE v1.30+.
Confusing name
The name of this project is rather confusing. MUSCLE is already the name of the de-facto standard smartcard environment for Linux. (Google for "muscle linux" and you'll see what I mean.)
Re: Rudimentary BeShare-compatible command line chat client available
Clyde 1.01 is
here. It fixes a nasty crashing bug and adds a few minor features.