On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Markus Spoettl <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 9, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Jim Correia wrote: >>> >>> I'm writing a simple voting app, where one instance of the app creates a >>> poll and then publishes it over Bonjour. Other instances of the app on the >>> same local network then find the publish poll, get the list of voting >>> options, and then allow users at each computer to start submitting votes. >>> The votes are sent back over the Bonjour connection, fed into a thread-safe >>> queue, and the poll owner retrieves them at his leisure. >> >> Bonjour is for advertising and discovering services. >> >> "The votes are sent back over the Bonjour connection" doesn't make sense. >> There is no such thing as a Bonjour connection. The client and server >> communicate by whatever means they would have communicated without zeroconf. > > > Apple's bonjour example (Picture Sharing > http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/PictureSharing/index.html) seems to be > demoing exactly what you say it doesn't do. Whether or not it's called > "bonjour connection" or something else doesn't really matter.
It matters a great deal. Knowing that Bonjour has absolutely nothing to do with making the actual connection is very important. Knowing that allows you to eliminate all questions about NSNetService and friends from your question of how to support multiple clients. Bonjour is a billboard on the side of the highway. You can give it a phone number to put up on the billboard, but it's entirely up to you to actually set that phone number up with the phone company, attach phones to it, and staff the place with smut-talking ladies. The billboard company doesn't even check to see if your phone number goes anyplace, much less control how many people can call in to your line at once. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
