On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 11:01, fooler wrote: > > is there a way for 2 (or more) completely different and unrelated > > applications to be able to exchange persistent information (i.e. data, > > objects) via some channel/server? > > yes thru InterProcess Communication (IPC)... you have lots of choices here > and these are the followings:
persistence is what i am after though. IPC is a method just for communication, no means for letting the communication or the data in transit to be stored somehow for some future reference of >1 application(s). and besides, this works for *nixes. i'm not sure if other OSes have/support IPC. anyone that knows whether it could be done in Windows? please let me know... =) > > socket programming is too OS specific and too much a burden for an > > application to incorporate into it consciously. > > because you are afraid to start working on it :-> socket programming is not > too OS specific... BSD socket is the de facto standard for socket > programming.. use it and your code is portable to other OSes... > ahem... i am not afraid to start working on it. i _am_ working on it now, and i agree, it's not hard. what i meant was, that if i was programming an application and consciously incorporating it into the app could be a hassle. i mean, i should care less on creating a socket connection to a database management system, then manually having to use the low level send() and recv() methods -- there are API's already for that so that you could use them to do just what you want. unless of course you wanna do it the less easier way... ;) > > databases are too demanding for systems that need to exchange small > > chunk size data objects. > > Berkeley DB is suited for this... i'm looking into it right now. =) thanks for the input. =) -- -=[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]
