On 12/06/2006, at 11:50 AM, Daryl Tester wrote: > So I guess what I'm after is some method/pattern where, given > an arbitrary function running on a server, I can extract enough > state from it to be handed over to the client (ignoring for the
While you're using XML, there doesn't seem to be a way around the problem as the answer is to stream the data, whereas XML is formatted in blocks. Given that constraint, the answer seems to be to use an intermediate server providing the API you want. That is to say, instead of a client/server arrangement, you want a client/api-server/server arrangement... where the database has no state, but the api-server does. That arrangement is scalable as you simply bung in more machines as you start running out of memory/CPU/ network, without the cost of a database per server. Needless to say, I think XML is a re-invention of the wheel, with spanners and swiss-army knives poking out of the treads, and I refuse to touch it. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ sapug mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/sapug
