Re: [vos-d] new vos concept: listen conditions

2007-01-31 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:52:11AM +0100, Karsten Otto wrote: > Funny... always before, VOS basically was a system for object state > replication. However, what you describe sounds more like a publish- > subscribe system! I wonder whether this paradigm shift is truly > intended? Or is the "sub

Re: [vos-d] new vos concept: listen conditions

2007-01-31 Thread Lalo Martins
You probably already know I like this idea. For things like web interfaces it would be awesome, in fact my web framework idea had a design very similar to this. best, Lalo Martins -- So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then t

Re: [vos-d] new vos concept: listen conditions

2007-01-31 Thread Reed Hedges
Karsten Otto wrote: > Funny... always before, VOS basically was a system for object state > replication. However, what you describe sounds more like a publish- > subscribe system! I wonder whether this paradigm shift is truly > intended? Or is the "subscription" just a way of optimizing networ

Re: [vos-d] new vos concept: listen conditions

2007-01-31 Thread Karsten Otto
Am 30.01.2007 um 20:50 schrieb Peter Amstutz: > [...] > c) For large updates (say over 4-8k), instead of immediately > sending out > new property data, the vobject sends out an invalidation message (I've > changed, you're out of date) and the remote side has the option of > deciding whether to g

Re: [vos-d] new vos concept: listen conditions

2007-01-31 Thread Karsten Otto
Funny... always before, VOS basically was a system for object state replication. However, what you describe sounds more like a publish- subscribe system! I wonder whether this paradigm shift is truly intended? Or is the "subscription" just a way of optimizing network traffic? Also, I don't

Re: [vos-d] new vos concept: listen conditions

2007-01-30 Thread Reed Hedges
Peter Amstutz wrote: > lightweight condition or query language that could be used for things > like what you describe as well as searching and selecting objects for > download. So it would have the same syntax as site searches etc? That would be cool as a library that could be reused. (A whi

Re: [vos-d] new vos concept: listen conditions

2007-01-30 Thread Peter Amstutz
(Forwarding this to vos-d for discussion) On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:00:35PM -0500, Reed Hedges wrote: > > This new thing would be like a different kind of listener. Or an > additional listener feature. Many listeners are monitoring the state of > something waiting for it to be changed to a ce