On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 07:48, CYWare wrote: > > > > i've thought of using shared memory, but my obstacle was applications > > that ran on different machines that are connected by a network. > Try Berkeley DB (http://www.sleepycat.com). It runs on all platforms > (Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD etc...) and supports most languages (C++, > PERL, PHP, JAVA, Visual Basic, Delphi etc...) >
hmmm... will do that. =) > > databases are too demanding for systems that need to exchange small > > chunk size data objects. > BDB is embedded and does not carry the overhead of databases, however, it > does support transactions which allows you to safely store > dependent/multiple objects as one transaction. Of cpurse this includes > storing streamable C++ or JAVA objects. > now this is what i wanted to offer too. methinks i'll read the docs about it first before continuing with my project... ;) one question: will a streamable object stored by a C++ app be available to a C app? how about a Java app? does it store|transmit it in a standard format, or does it do the conversion for you? > The best feature, especially if the data you are sharing is mission > criitcal, is the high availability feature which allows replication of your > data store for full fault tolerance. > now this is really neat. now that you've mentioned it, i think i want to put it in too. =) that is if and only if i go on with it... ;) > >currently, i am working on xmlgos -- XML Generic Object Server -- which > >would act as a repository of data objects which offers user > >authentication (and maybe later on SSL ;)) and a simple > >storage|retrieval system ala FTP. this project is still in its alpha > >stages, as i am still figuring out some details as to how i will > >implement the commands and the XML wrapping that i will employ (libxml). > > If you are willing to wait, BDB's XML library is already in beta. It > basically provides the storage and retrieval of XML data with all the > features I mentioned above. > i think i'll want to put my efforts into it then rather than creating something from scratch if it does already offer what i would want my xmlgos to do. > HTH. > yes it does. =) thanks! =) -- -=[mikhail]=- aka Dean Michael C. Berris mobile +63 917 8901959 work +63 49 5680024 http://free.net.ph/Members/mikhailberis pgp key ID = 0xF9501761 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
