Installing Gearman APIs for JAVA and PERL


Following yesterday’s marathon package installation ‘experiment’, today I started to acquire and install the Client/Worker API modules.

JAVA – installing gearman-java-0.03.jar

Java modules can be located on the downloads page for Gearman. It is also available at the Launchpad page for Gearman. I selected the code from the gearman.org site to try first, which ended up directing me to: https://launchpad.net/gearman-java.

I downloaded all three available files:

  • gearman-java-0.03.jar
  • geareman-java-0.03-javadocs.jar
  • gearman-java-0.03-src.tar.gz

Once downloaded, I moved all three files, and the original gearmand-C source to my Development directory.

PERL – installing Gearman::XS

For the PERL implementation, I’m going with the PERL wrapper, around the core gearman C libraries. I’d rather leverage as much C as possible. The focus for me is on speed.
It is available via CPAN under Gearman::XS.

Installing PERL packages is generally pretty painless.


#root:  cpan Gearman::XS
[...]
Running install for module 'Gearman::XS'
Running make for D/DS/DSCHOEN/Gearman-XS-0.8.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DS/DSCHOEN/Gearman-XS-0.8.tar.gz
[...]
Writing /Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/Gearman/XS/.packlist
Appending installation info to /Library/Perl/Updates/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/perllocal.pod
DSCHOEN/Gearman-XS-0.8.tar.gz
/usr/bin/make install  -- OK

With the installation completed, I wrote and executed a very simple script, to test PERL’s ability to locate the new module.


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Gearman::XS qw(:constants);
use Gearman::XS::Client;

print “\nLoaded and ran fine\n”;
exit 0;

This was the result:

david$ ./gtest0.pl

Loaded and ran fine

Installation of the PERL module Gearman::XS was successful.


NOTE: This is part of a series of posts, centered around installation and evaluation of Gearman as a distributed scheduling product. Here are the other articles in this group:

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