Gang, It looks like I responded to an email from Chipp, but I didn't realize that it included the entire Revolution community!
The "interesting news" would probably not be very interesting to anyone but Chipp and I as it involved a proposed Revolution project that we are in the process of winning. Sorry to disappoint! Best, Jerry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry Daniels Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 9:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Case Study... Chipp, Hey, I fixed that timing bug in Time Gadget. -JD P.S. Interesting news today from the RR front. On Mar 26, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > Hey Rob! > > Multi-tier in my book means using a 'middle-layer' between > client-server. > > This 'middle-layer' retains much of the business logic of the app and > thus the client becomes more of a 'thin-client'. > > For example: Many web applications are considered multi-tier, with the > browser being the 'thin-client', ASP,JSP,PHP,COM, and/or CGI (or other > Java stuff) considered to be the 'middle-layer' and the SQL Server, > Oracle, MySQL, etc.. being the database server. > > So, for instance, in the case of Revolution, a multi-tier approach > means Rev talking to a php script on a server which then queries a > MySQL database and returns the data --via XML, SOAP, plain text, > whatever-- to Rev. A significant advantage of Rev over a browser is > that the php script doesn't need to send back all of the display HTML > (for the browser), just the content. Typically, this happens almost > instantly. > > Hope this helps. > > Yep, still plan on getting out to see Dan, just not sure when. > > best, > > Chipp > > Rob Cozens wrote: > >> Hi Chipp, >> I read the "Why Multi-Tier" paragraph, but I don't have a picture of >> your definition of "Multi-Tier"; so I cannot comment intelligently. >> BTW, are you still planning to get out to meet with Dan Shafer? > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
