client/server design and advice

[Irmen de Jong]

bruce wrote:
> hi irmen...
> 
> happened to come across this post. haven't looked at pyro. regarding your
> 'work packets' could these essentially be 'programs/apps' that that are
> requested by the client apps, and are then granted by the dispatch/server
> app?
> 

Pyro supports a limited form of "mobile code" i.e. the automatic 
transfering of Python modules to the other side.
But it has a few important limitations and there's the security
aspect as well.

It's really better if you can stick to passing data around, not code... ;-)

> i'm considering condor (univ of wisconsin) but am curious as to if pyro
> might also work.

Not familiar with this.


--Irmen