RavenclawDev: BackendServer2

[Thomas K Harris]

> There is a BackendServer2 and RoomLineBackend. The dialog manager first
> calls BackendServer2 (where gal_be is defined) which then calls
> RoomLineBackend using a socket (not using hub, right?) What's the reason
> for such hierarchy? (Similarly with NLGServer2)

We (before my time here) had perl backends and either didn't have or
couldn't find perl bindings for Galaxy (although they're there now at
least). So they wrote a C Galaxy wrapper for them (BackendServer2). Same
deal with the nlg. Rosetta is a perl process.
 
> If I just want to have a single java backend server instead
> RoomlineBackend and BackendServer2, it should work, right?

Yea, it should work fine.

-Thomas

> thanks
> Svetlana
> 
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> Svetlana Stenchikova, Ph.D. Candidate
> Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University
> http://cs.sunysb.edu/~sveta
> sveta at cs.sunysb.edu
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