From: Ricardo Jasinski Date: 2007-07-15T02:15:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Real project -- general application structure > Have a status table that gets updated whenever an update comes in, and > on the webpage use periodically_call_remote to check the table to see > if there are new updates. Or you can just do an auto refresh of the > page every so often also. so there's no other way of making the two applications talk to each other except via the database? Since these messages are completely transitory and don't have any real need to be in the database, I was willing to avoid using the db for that... Thanks for your comments! Ricardo.