Andre's post: Rev and the Web...

[Randall Lee Reetz]

Thanks Bill.  I hope you are going to provide this functionality  
wrapped into xTalk's easy message passing protocol...

send myClientMessage to myServer

     and...

on myClientMessage
        do blablabla
end myClientMessage

Randall

On Dec 25, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Bill Marriott wrote:

> Randall,
>
> Thanks to the magic of gmane, I was able to dig up this thread (and  
> link to
> the forum) which this seems based upon.
>
> Andre's post:
> http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1612
>
> It's a little bit of ancient history now, as Rev is moving forward  
> on two
> fronts. First we are definitely going to have a Web plugin. And  
> second,
> we're going to be stepping up the server scripting (which we've  
> long had) so
> that you can mix snippets of Rev code within your HTML.
>
> We just sent out an announcement for RunRevLive.09, a conference  
> we'll be
> holding in Edinburgh this coming September. At this conference  
> we'll be
> officially launching Rev 4.0, which includes this technology. If  
> you didn't
> get this email, contact support @ runrev.com so you can get in on  
> it. Not
> only can they give you a coupon code [expires Dec 31] which will  
> save you
> 60% off the conference admission, but you'll be able to download  
> and use the
> current development build of the plugin. The conference site is at:
>
> http://runrevlive.com/09/index.htm
>
> To answer your questions, Rev already has the commands you need to  
> set up
> the kind of multi-user system you want. The main improvements Rev  
> 4.0 will
> bring are on the distribution front (you can embed your stack in a  
> web page,
> instead of building a standalone executable), and on the  
> implementation
> front (being able to mix Rev code in with your HTML is easier than  
> putting
> up full CGIs). The specific answers to your questions will be in  
> how you
> decide to architect things. For example, whether cookies will  
> suffice, or
> whether you'll want to have some kind of database back-end to track  
> things.
> You can communicate between clients and server using anything from  
> simple
> URL parameters, to POST data, to direct TCP or UDP connections. It all
> depends on what you're needs are, what your trying to do, and what  
> you want
> the user experience to be.
>
> - Bill
>
>
>
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