Revolution, PDAs and Data exchange. (was Re: Database Experience)

[John Tenny]

My need right now is not a server/shared DB, but just being able to 
sync data gathered at different times into a desktop DB so it can be 
searched, sorted, and printed. Windows/Mac and Palm/PocketPC


On Mar 15, 2004, at 10:27 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

>
> On Mar 16, 2004, at 2:57 AM, John Tenny wrote:
>
>> And what's been the experience with importing data from PDAs into 
>> Rev, in some database format? How y'all doin' that?
>>
>> John
>>
>
> Thats tricky!!!! depends on the plataform... but you could play like 
> this, is you PDA connected to the internet and able to use HTTP for 
> fetching and playing with Web pages? If so you can use 
> ServerWorkz/revHTTPd ( http://home.soapdog.org:8081/ ) for it can 
> transport automatically between html forms and  rev stacks, or you can 
> use LibCGI if you don't want to launch a custom HTTPd
>
> If you don't want to use web pages, you might still use revHTTPd 
> and/or LibCGI for the dirty work by arranging PDA data as XML and 
> POSTing it to a running server on the desktop. This would be easier 
> with revHTTPd for it's a self contained solution, LibCGI requires a 
> running HTTP server like apache.
>
> By using appForge (http://www.appforge.com) you can quickly create 
> PalmOS/PocketPC apps that do understand about HTTP so syncing is easy 
> as long as you have a network connection.
>
> For hotsync connection I don't know any info, but it hotsync can be 
> used for internet sharing, than, we get back on business. If this 
> thread is important, I can DEMO a PalmOS Custom app + Revolution 
> Desktop App solution. What do all think?
>
> Cheers
> Andre
>
>
>
>>
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Peace,

    John

John L. Tenny, Ph.D.
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