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

[Andre Garzia]

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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