Have you looked into Jabber?
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 17:08, Jim Collins wrote:
> I don't really like the idea of having lots of clients poll a server. At the
> moment I am just kicking a few ideas around how to best solve this and if
> Web Services is not suited to this type of problem will look at something
> else (probably RMI based).
>
> Regards
>
> Jim.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Benjamin Tomasini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:24 PM
> Subject: Re: OT Problem Domain question
>
>
> > Then you will have to embed a server in your clients. I would just poll
> > the web service at regular intervals.
> >
> > BTW, what about a simple RSS feed?
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 16:54, Jim Collins wrote:
> > > Hi Ian,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the feedback. Sending emails to clients does not seem a
> > > particularly elegant solution :). At the moment the client applications
> > > display the data in a table. A user can make a change to this and hit a
> > > submit button, when this happens the server is notified and then sends a
> > > message to all clients that have subscribed to these messages and they
> then
> > > update the table to reflect the change.
> > >
> > > I would like to move away from the messaging system and if possible use
> a
> > > Web Service.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Jim.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 9:27 PM
> > > Subject: Re: OT Problem Domain question
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Seems like a web service would be overkill for this sort of thing.
> > > >
> > > > What I would do is provide a server-side process that generates and
> > > > distributes the e-mail (perl works quite nicely), then call this
> process
> > > > whenever the datafeed changes.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > HTH,
> > > > Ian
> > > >
> > > > Ian D. Stewart
> > > > Open Systems Engineer II
> > > > Enterprise Midrange - Bank One Infrastructure & Operations
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > (614) 213-6100
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "Jim Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/18/2003 03:26:08
> PM
> > > >
> > > > Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > cc:
> > > >
> > > > Subject: OT Problem Domain question
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering if Web Services would be applicable for the following
> > > > problem.
> > > >
> > > > I have a number of clients that receive an XML datafeed. This datafeed
> can
> > > > change due to various circumstances and I would like all the clients
> to be
> > > > notified of any change. Would it be possible for a Web Service to
> notify
> > > > all
> > > > clients of a change or would the clients need to continually poll the
> Web
> > > > Service for any changes.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > Jim.
> > > >
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