Use horses when traveling in the lands, but prefer more faster and appropriate transports when talking to your neighbours
There are two backends in the transport layer. The first one is named EE and
it’s based on the EventEmitter of nodejs. The second one is named Axon and
implements a particular protocol on TCP/IP. The base idea is simple. A message
where the destination is in the same process, uses the EE backend. But a
message where the destinations are on external processes, will use the Axon
backend. Even if base idea is simple, the implementation is much more complexe.
The events are routed accordingly to the destinations and a lot of events are
just used in broadcasting. These events are sent on all backends (EE and
Axon).
It’s important to understand that the objects passed via EE are not cloned and then, the functions are not stripped. It’s forbidden to mute an object from a message and to depend of these mutations from the caller. Providing functions as value in the Xcraft messages is forbidden. There is no cloning or cleaning only for performance reasons.
The use of the transport is done via the routers. These routers use the backends accordingly to the routing table and the topics.