Jimmie Houchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is available in Squeak for distributed network services?
>
Nothing, but then what would you want, exactly?
DNS tricks are a good first cut and balancing accesses. Also, writing
proxy modules that will forward a request to another computer is pretty
simple.
Keeping *data* synchronized across computers, though, can't really be
solved in the general case, because there is so much wiggle room in
*how* synchronized your data needs to be. In the extreme case where you
need prefect synchronization, the syncronization is likely to become
more expensive than the web accesses and so having multiple servers
won't help. At the other extreme, maybe you can get away with runnng an
hourly ftp to a central server to update all the web servers.
Do you know more about what kind of synchronization you will need? The
basic answer is that there's not much in Squeak or Comanche to help with
it, but I'm curious as to what there even *could* be.
-Lex
