From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2003-01-11T01:55:55+09:00
Subject: Re: [slightly OT] Using Observer pattern in client/server architecture - how?

On Friday 10 January 2003 09:02 am, Martin Hart wrote:

> My question is:
> Can this sort of thing be done by using any of the ruby comm libraries
> (SOAP, XMLRPC, http-access-2) available from RAA?
> My (limited) understanding of these packages is that they are based
> around the http protocol which closes the connection as soon as the
> server has replied to the client.
> I have downloaded each package and cannot see any obvious ways to do what
> I want - but then again, I don't really know what I am doing :-).

could you not re-open the connection on each observer update? as long as its 
not too frequent that might work. just a thought. if you need more speed 
though you will probably want to go down a level and work directly in TCP/IP.

-- 
tom sawyer, aka transami
transami@transami.net


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