Synapse is a simple Python module that provides a communication interface through nodes. It abstracts the underlying protocol. The configuration stores protocol specific data and a node is instanciated with the node.makeNode() factory.
The node is the unit of communication. Actor is built on top of Node to provide a distributed communication interface. When an actor joins the network it announces itself to an announce service. The announce is stored in the remote service and broadcasted to all other nodes by a pub/sub queue.
Currently it supports Zeromq as the underlying protocol and JSON-RPC to encode and decode messages.
Read doc/quickstart for a practical introduction. As documentation in doc/ is
in Sphinx format, type make in the directory to see how to build it in HTML
or PDF.