Re: Newbie: Asynchronous messaging in CORBA -- is it possible?

[Edgar Hilton <efhilton fsmlabs com>]

Rodrigo,

Thank you so much for your input.  

Do you happen to have a simple example that already implements this? Or,
alternatively, can you point me to an actual piece of code that
implements this? I seem to be somewhat confused by what you are saying.

Thank you in advance,

-Edgar


On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 18:28, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 23:46, Edgar Hilton wrote:
> > Hi! I'm a newbie, so please be gentle.
> > 
> > What is the best way to do the following?
> > 
> > I have a set of clients and one server using ORBit + C.
> > 
> > Clients are able to reference all the appropriate objects from the
> > server without any problems.  
> > 
> > The question is: how can I get the server to trigger some action in
> > select clients? For example, let's say that I am sitting at the server
> > machine, and want several of the clients to refresh a list of
> > parameters.  How can I do this?
> > 
> you can do it by using listeners, something that is widely used in
> GNOME.
> 
> For instance, you could have:
> 
> interface Server {
> 	void connectClient (in Client client);
> };
> 
> interface Client {
> 	void notify (...);
> };
> 
> and have the Client interface be implemented in the client-side, so that
> it can receive notifications from the server.
> 
> cheers
> -- 
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