>Thanks for your time Michael.
>I was wondering about the possibility to use RPC to transfer information.
>>>I have a few offices running the same application. One of them need to be able to get updated by the other offices entries on a regular basis (each hour for example). What would be the best solution to do that ?
>>>
>>>Thanks for any idea
>>>Eric
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>>Well, it would be possible to download hourly from an FTP site, but perhaps it would make more sense to pull a subset of data over the wire when they need it (through a web enabled form)? Depends on the app, and it requires an Internet connection. Check out Rick Strahl's wwIPStuff.




i've used RPC with great satisfaction for synchronizing distributed
databases. i've not used RPC to transfer the bulk of the data, however.
my approach was to build transaction tables and transfer those between
machines, then use RPC to perform the actual synchronization. you will
of course have to implement your own sync architecture (e.g. version
numbers, or sync generation numbers, etc). what this does allow (that some of the commercial synchronization software does not), is that you can modify
table structures and propogate those structure changes to the other machines.
works well with dial-up networking. do you have a wan ? or dun ?