Alastair Burt wrote:
Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> writes:
A couple of us here at NIP are playing around with building a fat client for Zope
What is a fat client?
On a related note (I think?), how hard would it be to build a Groove-like system with ZEO? I have never used Groove, but it sounds like a useful groupware tool for everyman. If the basis of Groove is incremental synchronisation of shared databases, then ZEO seems to offer similar functionality,
Actually its a lot more than incremental synchronization of databases. The key with Groove is that it is a client-centric peer-to-peer system. The focus is on getting away from server centric systems and the ability to form spontaneous group shared spaces with different sets of people based on shared work. So going with ZEO seems like a step in the opposite direction, philosophically and from the point of view of functionality, since ZEO is a number of *servers* working together rather than a number of clients i.e. it's "server++" not "client++" as in Groove. Nitin Borwankar, President and CEO, Borwankar Research inc. nitin@borwankar.com
especially if it encrypted the synchronisation protocol, which is what you, Chris, mentioned doing in a previous post.
--- Alastair
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