I'm not sure if this is directed at me but I will asnwer as if it is... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09.06.2005, 18:05:00: > Yeah – right! But I would call this meta-application, i.e. the gathering of > all > those EXE – a SYSTEM not an Application! (By the way – that is called > Microsoft > Office?)
Since I have been programming commerically I can't think of one project that I have done that has been a single executable (apart from maybe programs used for specific tasks within a system but have little to do with the system as a whole i.e. data house keeping or similar, but then thay have always been part fo a bigger project) > The next issue that I would be interested in it – if possible: how these EXEs > of yours interact? > I can think to many ways: sharing files, sending messages, using system > queues, > remoting (Com/DCOM, Web Services etc.) You forgot command line parameters :) It would depend on the situation, I generally don't write systems with many communitcating exe files, but there are times that it is appropriate to have some functionallity that is not part of the main application, eg pacthing (an application can't change itself while in memory), data housekeeping, file system repair (going back a few years now to Paradox), scheduled tasks (it may be more appropriate to have several exe run from a windows scheduler on a server for example). > Then having this distributed EXE system, I’m sure there should be some > redundant code repeated in all or some files. I'm sure there's plenty of repeated an rudundent code in any system (be it across many applications or a single exe). Did you consider extracting this > redundant code (in the form of procedures, methods, objects, OLE, components > - > whatever) and distributing them as dlls, packages, Com+ objects, Web > Services, > etc? Now I'm not sure that is dirrected at me at all!?! > > Horia > > ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
