I’ve recorded a screencast that walks you through the process of developing a SimpleRPC Agent, give it a DDL and also a simple client to communicate with it.
The tutorial creates a small echo agent that takes input and return it unmodified. It validates that you are sending a string and has a sample of dealing with intermittent failure.
Once you’ve watched this, or even during, you can use the following links are reference material: Writing Agents, Data Definition Language and Writing Clients.
You can view it directly on blip.tv which will hopefully be better quality.
I used a few VIM Snippets during the demo to boilerplate the agent and DDL, you’ll find these in the tarball for the upcoming 0.4.7 release in the ext/vim directory, they are already on GitHub too.
