Tales From The Geek Side

I released a bunch of software related to a message passing middle-ware that I developed at work. My employer, Impact Technologies, agreed to release the code. I call the middle-wave iobroker. iobroker uses a post/subscribe mechanism and passes around arbitrary sized messages. Each message is given a class-id which is an arbitrary string. Clients subscribe using regular expressions telling the server what messages they are interested in receiving. When a message arrives matching a subscription the server forwards the message to the client. Communication is through UNIX sockets or via TCP or both. I’ve also released a number of supporting libraries. The support libraries all have BSD licenses while the iobroker server is licensed using GPL v2. See the software page for more info and to download the code.