[Gllug] windows and linux client server

[Richard Cottrill]

I'd look at Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) as a basic client-server comms
technology (there's whole bunches of stuff about RPC on the net) - it's
free, open, well known, reliable, etc.

For more sophisticated problems there's the whole field of middleware: JMS,
CORBA, you name it... I currently work for TIBCO and we do most/all our work
in EAI which is a fancy way of saying "get some computer(s) to work with
some other computer(s)".

The current buzzwords in the "one computer talking to another" space are
SOAP, web services, and other XML based technologies.

To get more ideas take the key words above and throw them at Google and see
what comes back. All of these things are tried and tested on Linux, Windows,
and everything else.

VB is sort of easy to work with, but not really, when it comes to doing this
sort of thing (it's too open for Microsoft to take much of an interest).
Maybe VB.net will offer support for the non-Microsoft version of SOAP and it
will become a piece of cake. Maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt too.

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of John Hearns
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 5:05 PM
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] windows and linux client server
>
>
> On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 17:05, avner zrihen wrote:
> > Hi all
> > I am trying to start a client server project to incorporate linux ( the
> > server )  and windows ( the clients) via tcp/ip
>
> I think Avner's got the answer he wanted from Richard and Jason.
>
> It's not my area really, but can we ask what it is you want to do?
> Maybe the GLLUG mind can direct you to some good resources.
> If this is a student project, as I think it might be,
> then the object of your lecturers is to get you to learn about
> the nitty-gritty details.
> Better minds that I on the list will provide you with pointers
> to books and websites.
>
>
> If you have more of a development project in mind,
> then the current bee in my bonnet is something called Beep.
> I'm sure it is useful for SOMETHING
> http://www.clipcode.com/peer/beep_technical_whitepaper.htm
>
> Beep http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/beep/
> SOAP over Beep http://www.xml.com/pub/r/1189
>
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