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Re: How to organize client-server IDL application? [message #26055 is a reply to message #26010]

Tue, 31 July 2001 08:49

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Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1]
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JD Smith <jdsmith@astro.cornell.edu> writes:

> Altyntsev Dmitriy wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to build classic client-server IDL application. I have some
>> program on the client side, it sent some data to server part, server
>> processes this data and returnes the result to client. Both of the
>> sides are written in IDL. But I can't find a proper way of doing that.
>> So, what I have found. Where am I wrong?
>> ActiveX - for one machine and not for IDL client program
>> ION - for Internet, for browser
>> Socket - only for client side
>> RPC - call IDL server from C (how to do this from IDL?)
>> Now, I'm get out of this problem by managing buffer files on local
>> network and ftp, but I think it's not quite right.
>>
>
> I'd consider using the IDL internal SOCKET procedure on the client side,
> and building a TCP/IP socket server on the server side, written in C and
> connected to IDL as a DLM. It's not as hard as it sounds. If it's a
> local client-server interaction, a pair of named pipes (FIFO's) would
> do.

Or write a DLM on the client side that uses RPC calls to communicate with
the server.

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		Re: How to organize client-server IDL application? By: HILBERMAN on Wed, 01 August 2001 11:39
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		Re: How to organize client-server IDL application? By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 31 July 2001 08:36
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