Micah wrote:
Well, you could always connect directly to mysql and do that. I actually do
that quite a bit add users..
I'm not sure why a custom protocol would make making other language clients
easier. It may very well make them more secure though.
I think a protocol would be a lot safer than enabling each application
to directly connect to the database. For example, in a balanced
environment I could have two completely different applications modifying
user information at the database without worrying about synchronization
problems, since every protocol command would be atomic.
For example, supose I use an administration tool written in php to
control some information, and I write a servlet that allows the user to
change the the same information, and I have a background python process
that does some cleanup at the database, at the same information. Nothing
guarantees that at some time some data corruption will occur, since
there is no lock mechanism to avoid this.
Maybe you can say this will not happen so frequently, so it is not a
necessary feature, but maybe in a near future...
[]s, gandhi
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