synaptein

Overview

The word “synapse” comes from “synaptein”, which Sir Charles Scott Sherrington and colleagues coined from the Greek “syn-” (“together”) and “haptein” (“to clasp”).

synaptein is a simple Ruby daemon that translate from other protocols into Jabber, and in future versions back again.

This has several (not immediately obvious) benefits:

• Quicker message dispatching for stateless and short lived services. This includes bash scripts sending via curl, or cron notifications, etc.
• Translating incoming Jabber messages into AMQP for true distributed processing and task delegation.
• Translating incoming Jabber messages into REST for processing by Merb, Rails or Halcyon

And many others…

synaptein will be written in Ruby, and initially support incoming XML message to Jabber convertions, with a seperate Rails plugin for sending messages to the synaptein daemon.