[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

2002-01-15 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Don, << This is not meant to be a hostile criticism of Rugby, just to point out that there is no magic. >> Agreed. There is no solution which will work in every situation. I guess I would say that if you decide some part of your app should make remote calls, Rugby is up to the task as well as

[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

2002-01-15 Thread Don Cox
On 14-Jan-02, Gregg Irwin wrote: > << But isn't this incredibly slow compared to running the function > locally? >>> > > Yes, but...it depends on your connection, the overhead of the > marshalling, and the amount of time spent in the function, as well as > the frequency of the call. > > Even m

[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

2002-01-15 Thread Brett Handley
Hi Jason, > LoL :-) that's really wonderful.. thanks for de-mystifying teh subject in > such an entertaining and lucid way. Glad you liked it. There's hope for me yet! > btw do you know Scott McCloud's brilliant cartoon-books: 'Understanding Never met them. But I'll make a note to check out th

[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

2002-01-15 Thread Carl Read
On 13-Jan-02, Jason Cunliffe wrote: >> Here's an attempt (WARNING long winded). ===Why a request broker? >> ===The dark times. >> ===Rugby >> ===Scenarios >> Rugby does it's job so well it seems overkill to even talk about >> Request Brokers. > Brett > LoL :-) that's really wonderful.. thanks f

[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

2002-01-14 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Don, << But isn't this incredibly slow compared to running the function locally? >> Yes, but...it depends on your connection, the overhead of the marshalling, and the amount of time spent in the function, as well as the frequency of the call. Even making an out-of-process call on the same ma

[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

2002-01-14 Thread Brett Handley
Hi Rondon, > I have a few doubts about rugby. I can make a direct call using rexec and sexec, putting the service at http layer. So I can call a service through rugby to be sent to a browser, but how can I send back args to my functions inside rugby server via my IE5? > What are the variables tha

[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

2002-01-13 Thread Petr Krenzelok
Don Cox wrote: >On 13-Jan-02, Brett Handley wrote: > >>Say you have a script with some functions defined and the main >>execution code. Rugby allows you to split that script up to run across >>more than one Rebol process (usually on different machines). You could >>put all the functions in one sc

[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

2002-01-13 Thread Don Cox
On 13-Jan-02, Brett Handley wrote: > Say you have a script with some functions defined and the main > execution code. Rugby allows you to split that script up to run across > more than one Rebol process (usually on different machines). You could > put all the functions in one script and place tha

[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

2002-01-13 Thread Jason Cunliffe
> Here's an attempt (WARNING long winded). > ===Why a request broker? > ===The dark times. > ===Rugby > ===Scenarios > Rugby does it's job so well it seems overkill to even talk about Request > Brokers. Brett LoL :-) that's really wonderful.. thanks for de-mystifying teh subject in such an enter

[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

2002-01-13 Thread Jason Cunliffe
> I have a few doubts about rugby. I can make a direct call using rexec and sexec, putting the service at http layer. So I can call a service through rugby to be sent to a browser, but how can I send back args to my functions inside rugby server via my IE5? > What are the variables that I must rea

[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

2002-01-12 Thread rondon . andrade
Hi Brett and Rebolers! I have a few doubts about rugby. I can make a direct call using rexec and sexec, putting the service at http layer. So I can call a service through rugby to be sent to a browser, but how can I send back args to my functions inside rugby server via my IE5? What are the var

[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

2002-01-12 Thread Carl Read
On 13-Jan-02, Brett Handley wrote: > Hi Jason, >> Well I know it is one of REBOL's secret weapons of Mass Delirium, >> but I still don't quite get it. I would welcome a beginner's >> explanation about request brokers, and expecially anything which >> expands on the rugby site documentation. > H

[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

2002-01-12 Thread Brett Handley
Hi Jason, > Well I know it is one of REBOL's secret weapons of Mass Delirium, but I > still don't quite get it. I would welcome a beginner's explanation about > request brokers, and expecially anything which expands on the rugby site > documentation. Here's an attempt (WARNING long winded). ===