[OSC_dev] OSC Servers

[jared jennings]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 12:43 +1100, Angelo Fraietta wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> I have been looking through my archives and had seen that there were
>  previous version of [Open Sound Control] servers back in 2003, where a
>  client would register for a particular group of messages.
> 
> Is anyone doing that sort of thing?

I don't know if you'd say I'm still "doing" libOSC++ or wireTAP - I
haven't used them since March 2005 - but I've got them, and can make
them available (the primary site, wiretap.stetson.edu, seems possibly
down). Daniel Holth probably has them too, but sadly I haven't talked to
him in a while.

libOSC++ is a rather clever event-driven binding of OSC to C++,
including TCP support. I believe we got it to work on the Mac (OS 10.3
or so); but I'm afraid we left off just before adding Windows support.
The wireTAP server, then, implements channels using libOSC++. Various
wireTAP client "kits" were made for all sorts of languages, with an
attempt made to make the interface mostly the same regardless of which
language you used (as opposed to an attempt to make the kits idiomatic
to each language). Java support was based on flosc from Ben Chun. I'm
not sure if I've got a complete set of the client kits.

I heard some noises about a year ago about a possible wireTAP class at
Stetson University (my alma mater); I don't know what became of it.
Perhaps some more recent Stetsonites are listening and can fill us in.