On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 01:14:18PM -0500, Arthur Peters wrote: (cut) >I think there might be problems with option 1 when the apps are running >on different machines (as was mensioned earlier). Maybe a hybrid would >work: provide an API for each app to pass it's data to the project >server. This data could be anything, XML, binary of somesort, whatever. >The project server could then store that data any way it wanted, the >simplest being a group of files in a directory. The apps wouldn't have >to change their data format, only replace their file IO with this API, >and we would have some choice of backends. (cut)
I think this is the only reasonable approach. Have some interface in each program to set and retrieve state information. Programs who implement the interface benifit from the added advantage a user has of using that program with some sort of state daemon. I would vote for this solution if I could :) vini
