Thanks Tom. My intuition tells me that polling would generate a significant amount of overhead for the server when several thousand users are connected, so I'm thinking that allowing the server to send data to clients when it determines that they need it would make the system scale better. It also strikes me that both the client and server-side programming should be significantly simpler if polling logic can be avoided.
Are there any alternative techniques with the Adobe family of products, or is Flex/FDS/ColdFusion/Actionscript my only option if server push is a key requirement? Thanks for your input, - j. On Aug 14, 2006, at 1:11 AM, Tom Chiverton wrote: > On Saturday 12 August 2006 05:18, Jay Gibb wrote: >> Can anyone suggest another solution that I might not have considered? > > Depending in what you mean by 'push', and assuming you have a > ColdFusion > backend, you may be able to do away with FDS and replicate the > functionality > using polling and/or pre-save checks for currency. > > -- > Tom Chiverton -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> 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/
