Santiago A. wrote:
Using a remote Xwindows server (Are there good Xwindows server for win32?) Making a web application using ExtJs
Doctrine has it that the X protocol isn't very good over long-distance comms, i.e. anything other than an in-memory or LAN connection; it might be improved if tunneled e.g. over SSH. I've used it over a modem link in the past but I might have been lucky, and I don't think that luck has any place in the sort of scenario you're considering. An adequate Win-32 X client is XMing, noting that recent versions aren't entirely free (as I understand it).
Alternatives are something like VNC (check the encryption situation), a proprietary protocol between frontend and middleware (e.g. text command-response via an SSH tunnel), some sort of webapp with a browser at the user end, or the app running entirely at the user end with (encrypted) comms to a backend database (note that PostgreSQL and I believe Firebird allow the database to advise the app that attention is required).
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