> I like your concept and agree with your design choices, so much in fact > that I independently implemented a very similar system. In my case I > packaged the responses in XML,
Difficult isn't it, XML or no XML :-) I had also considered XML, if nothing else it is the 'in thing'. But the other side of the coin is that if your XML replies do not comply to a recognised dictionary, the only advantage is that ready made parsers are available. Apart from the horrendous overhead of XML, it is not necessarily easier to incorporate a ready made but complex library than it is to implement a very simple parser from scratch. But when I factored in the possibilities of connecting from environments like PLC's and scripting environments where an XML parser is not necessarily available it became a no brainer. My underlying philosophy was KISS, and perhaps a better name for the techfell protocol (which is historic and pre dates uSQLite) would be SPP, Simplest Possible Protocol. > parser for flexibility. Even with the added overhead it is fast enough > to get comments from users. Don't be discouraged. You mean it was allready available?
