[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >My main interest now is in collaborative things. Multiuser spreadsheet is a simple >example where each cell(or group of cells) can be locked/shared, etc. I would like to >extend this concept down to the scalar item level (and maybe block in Rebol) so that >some general mechanisms can be put in place for developing applications for >community/group use. > > if you think in terms of A + user-on-nodeX/B = result, then Rebol does not provide it to you automatically. As for distributed computing - the best thing so far in Rebol is Rugby. It enables you to expose set of functions, which should be available to you, once you connect. So you call something like
get-rugby-service http://some-other-machine: port and you get back list of functions (proxies), so you can call them like they would sit right on your machine. The best model I seen so far is QNX Rtp. It is fantastic - once machine connects to their network, it just becomes part of kind of a cluster. All low level system managers do it for you. So, if you call 'open fileX, it's open, who will tell appropriate resource manager, it want such file, and that resource manager scans all nodes automatically! The result is - you don't have to adapt your app to network environment. That's the coolest concept I seen so far, so I will not be satisfied, unless I see it done in Rebol. What we currently have is - ability to use various protocols and TCP communication to handle connection, but no such stuff QNX offers. And that's why I talked about starting with some framework, which would allow us at least more automatic solutions - e.g. not having to build client and server handling scripts each time we want to communicate via TCP. The nearest thing to merge two machines/processes so far is - Rugby. But to achieve QNX like behavior, we would need probably RT's assistance. But once again - it would be nice to have some system/hooks item, where other connected machines/processes would be registered, so e.g. simple exists? fileX, would scan also those machines, without the need to change single line of code ... Well, enough of dreaming .... >It might be the case that IOS already has some of these mechanisms in place, guess I >will somehow have to figure that out. > No, I think not in terms you think (of course, if I understand your needs correctly). But yes, IOS is nice - it has nice message dialect based synchronisation mechanism, where you can dynamically post or remove handlers (callback functions), so you are notified once specific condition is met ... PS: Dick, what is your track record? Where do you come from, what is your job, etc. Could you please a bit introduce yourself to us? :-) Thanks ... Cheers, -pekr- > >Again, I appreciate your help and look forward to learning more and more about Rebol. > >Dick > > >Download NeoPlanet at http://www.neoplanet.com > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
