> Thanks for your feedback and to answer Mr. Watt's > question I believe that the PPC device has to be > both server and client because full time network > connectivity is not assumed.
That's an argument for persistent storage, not for acting as a server. There's a significant difference. > In a typical scenario for a realestate person, field > worker, factory manager or anyone else that can only > perodically connect to a backend database server, I > would like to see the ability for a device to syncronize > with a database only and then your CF app is run locally. The appropriate solution here wouldn't be a CF application running on the PocketPC itself. If I were building this, or proposing it as a solution, my path would be to build an eVB front-end to SQL Server CE, which would store information persistently on the client. Then, when it's time to synchronize with the server, you'd have all sorts of different options. You could use the built-in synchronization provided between SQL Server CE and SQL Server 2000 (which would negate the need for any web application proper), or you could exchange data through a web interface of some sort, using CF on the back end. Neo will make this sort of thing even easier, with its support of web services, but you could still do all of this today - there's a nice implementation of a SOAP client for PocketPC, called PocketSOAP, appropriately enough. > Yes WAP and WML are helping the client interprete data from > the server but that is only half the equation. While that's true, CF would hardly be the optimal solution for this particular problem. For that matter, neither would the IIS/ASP functionality built into PocketPC. The web application architecture isn't really good for building locally run applications - there's a lot of overhead involved that wouldn't be necessary. CF is the wrong tool for this job. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
