On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 13:22, fooler wrote: > > 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). > > IPC mechanisms are used to support distributed processing... its up to you > to provide persistence on a low level programming :-> >
i know that... what i'm after is not something on the low level, but for a higher level. i'm not going to mess with the "standard" IPC (SysV and POSIX) calls in any way. i'm not yet that far from reality. and besides, what i'm going to offer doesn't in any way duplicate IPC. what i will offer is a repository for xml wrapped data objects or xml documents. it could be used as an indirect way for applications to "communicate" with each other via the server by putting and getting data there. > > > > 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... ;) > > then why not create your own API with these low level functions so that you > have full control over it? :-> so that for easy integration for your future > work :-> > _THAT_ is what i am actually doing. the server i'm working on is only one part of the system i am currently developing, and up next would be the API to that server. please check out my other post regarding what i actually want to do. =) P.S. i'd like to think of this project as my contribution to the open source development community. i hope that this xml generic object server would be useful not only to me, but to others that also need the said functionality. hopefully, i'd be able to release a working alpha package on sourceforge, and be able to test it on different situations around the start of the first semeser (June). -- -=[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]
