Re: Network notifications

FROM : Hamish Allan
DATE : Mon Mar 31 22:41:21 2008

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Randall Meadows <<email_removed>> wrote:

>  The two apps that are going to be communicating* will have similar,
>  though not identical life times.  In general, my app is going to be
>  launched first, and will be gathering data; the remote app will likely
>  come online later, and then gather all information collected thus far
>  by my app, and then start listening for when my app acquires more data
>  to it can keep up-to-date in more or less real-time; this is so that
>  the remote can always have the latest data, in case my app quits (my
>  user goes to lunch, or is done for the day and leaves the site, for
>  example).


Well, you could just use Bonjour to advertise a TCP port on which the
client can connect, and then both server and client would keep that
connection alive until the client quits, and the server could simply
send the URL of any changed items in plain text to the client.

Hamish