On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Tom Sanders wrote: > I have two application servers running at different > machines and I want to provide a function call type > (synchronous) interface to applications. > > This operation may mean one server to send/receive > data from another server. Since I want application to > be unaware of such inter-machine communication and > yet provide a synchronous interface, I want client > call to be blocked in local server unless all data is > ready. > > Any suggessions about good ways of achieving this > functionality? Message Q, Pipes, anything? Your inputs > will be appreciated. Use TCP/IP sockets. A TCP/IP socket, once the connection is made, is a file. A textbook on the topic will have sample simple client/server models for you to use. You've not mentioned programming languages, but it's particularly easy in Java. Perl does it too, of course. Webmin (www.webin.com) has a web server written in Perl. -- Please, reply only to the list. _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
