[Devel] New module for OpenSER - Application Server interconnection

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu bogdan at voice-system.ro
Fri Dec 22 20:29:51 CET 2006


Hi Elias,

I manage to put the doc on the web along with the pictures...pretty nice ;).

http://www.openser.org/docs/modules/1.2.x/seas.html

Juha, looks like the devel section is very well documented.

Regards,
Bogdan

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:

> Hi Elias,
>
> (also fwd. to "users" to let everybody know)
>
> thanks for the contribution. I think that the new SEAS and PERL 
> modules will give a lot more options when comes to integrate OpenSER 
> with other application and what is more important , they will allow 
> non-C extensions :) !!
>
> I will generate the docs and place them on the web also. BTW, are some 
> default application that I can give a fast try? I would like to test 
> some real-case apps to get the feeling.
>
> Regards and Merry Christmas,
> Bogdan
>
> Elias Baixas wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I just submitted a new module, called SEAS (which stands for Sip 
>> Express Application Server).
>> This module allows a third party to create an Application Server and 
>> connect it to OpenSER to interoperate seamlessly.
>> This permits the Application Server to trigger actions on OpenSER, 
>> such as sending out a request, or replying a UAS transaction, in some 
>> way similarly to what can be achieved using fifo, or MI commands 
>> "t_uac_dlg" and "t_reply", but SEAS provides a much richer API to 
>> this kind of tasks.
>> The module also allows OpenSER to notify the Application Server when 
>> requests/responses come in, and then transfer the control over the 
>> incoming request entirely to the Application Server.
>> Furthermore, the module implements a binary protocol that transfers 
>> the SIP message along with information abouth the structure of the 
>> message's headers (ie. where each header starts, and how long it is), 
>> so the Application Server doesn't need to reparse the entire SIP 
>> message, thus improving Application Server's performance very much.
>> The SEAS protocol also carries information about the transaction 
>> being processed at OpenSER for every message, so that the Application 
>> Server doesn't need to implement all the SIP-transaction machinery, 
>> thus actually profitting from the highly optimized TM module at OpenSER.
>>
>> The Application Server can be programmed in any language, because the 
>> SEAS module comunicates with it through a TCP socket.
>>
>> At the moment, SEAS module has been written to work with an 
>> Application Server developed by VozTelecom. It is called WeSIP and 
>> can be downloaded freely from http://www.wesip.eu . WeSIP is an 
>> implementation of the SipServlet and HttpServlet standards, so it 
>> allows a programmer to easily implement Web-Sip converged 
>> applications (such as Click2call).
>> WeSIP is programmed entirely in Java, so you have all the tools and 
>> facilities from Java and J2EE available to program SIP applications, 
>> while already using OpenSER to process the SIP messages and 
>> transactions at the low level, thus profitting both from the high 
>> performance of OpenSER, and the high-level SIP-Application 
>> programming framework which is SipServlet and the JAVA languaje.
>>
>> I hope this module will help create new usage scenarios for OpenSER, 
>> allowing it to provide high-level Telephony Applications to users.
>>
>> The module is still in a alpha stage, but should be able for 
>> production shortly.
>>
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> Elias Baixas
>>
>> VozTelecom, Sistemas
>> http://www.wesip.eu
>> http://www.voztele.com
>>
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