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Re: TServerSocket v/s Indy

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From: Hans Galema
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:22
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JD wrote:

 > All I want to do (at this point)
> is prevent multiple clients from writing to the database at
> the same time 

Suddenly there is a database. Why would you prevent access at the
same timet ?
I do not grab this. Clients would not read/write from/to a database
I would think, only your server. How do you want to set up all this ?
Please explain first.

 > (which I know I don't *need* a server for)

Would you really let the clients of your server also connect to
a databaseserver ?

 > and
> to use the server to notify (other) clients that the database
> has changed.

That is a nice option. But then only your server should connect
and write/read to the database.

> There are other design considerations like distributed
> processing

Please explain.

> and dial-up/web-based access but they're for
> the future.

You can have webbased acces if your cgi application
behaves like a client.

Hans.
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