Flavio, > > The application is essentially a server side app that will manage various > > background file moving/archiving processes and store metadata about the > > files in a database. The heavy lifting in terms of file analysis and > > moving the materials around and storing the metadata in the database will > > entirely be done by a Cocoa application running on a server. > > I don't really understand the need for a Cocoa app on the server. The web app > will only handle file operations and metadata storage on the database? If > this is the case, maybe you can drop Cocoa entirely. > > > I want the end users to be able to browse/search the metadata from a web > > based application for the sake of cross-platform compatibility, and > > ultimately their actions within the web app will trigger jobs within the > > server app. I was planning on some sort of SOAP interface in the Cocoa app > > to accept commands from the web application to trigger the jobs. > > So, you need to move files around and store metadata on the database. Why > don't you do it in PHP or Rails? PHP comes with Mac OS X and can be easily > updated through packages. Rails can be easily installed. > Unfortunately, the other key piece of information I have left out is that I also need to tie into some C based APIs in order to drive some large Sun robotic tape libraries. I also wish to achieve as high a degree of concurrency as possible in the file moving/compression processes, and am hoping to take advantage of the newer concurrent technologies that accompany OS 10.6.
The original application was built entirely with Rails, but the scope has expanded significantly, and so I am now having to look in other directions in order to communicate with all of the systems I will ultimately have to talk to. Should prove to be fun (or at least very interesting...) Take care, Josh_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
