Socket Tutorial Guidelines [was: thank you notes]

[Bill Vlahos]

I think you are correct to use socket communication for your 
application because you are writing both the client and server.

Apple Events offers benefits only supported on Macintosh computers to 
take advantage of AppleScript dictionaries. There is nothing like 
AppleScript for any other platform. AppleScript is terrific but it is 
not cross-platform.

Bill Vlahos

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 01:49  PM, Rob Cozens wrote:

> I have selected socket communication as the preferred approach to 
> interapplication communication because it is the only approach I know 
> of that works on all platforms, and over the Internet as well. 
> Obviously, scripting Apple event handlers does one little good when 
> it's time to port to Unix/Windows.  Am I losing any significant timing 
> and/or data passing capacity advantages of platform-specific avenues 
> of interprocess communication?
>
> In other words, is there any intrinsic reason for using Apple events 
> on Macs and  their equivalent on Windows vs using sockets on both?