Ah, just a another name for VNC? And what if your network connectivity goes down? How do you then remotely operate your app? Show me!
Using Fluid you might not even notice, since each device has a version of the application and a full copy of the data. And the Fluid middleware takes care, that - as soon as the connection comes up again - the changes of the different replicas will be synchronized again in the background.
No, it's not just another name for XML. Its a name for the idea/vision that your application state can be migrated to (an)other device(s) at any point in time and even remain synchronized! I.e. you can not only migrate that document onto your PDA and then continue working on it during the bus-ride and later on your home PC (and back again next morning), but you could even share a document with other users at any point in time and changes by them could automatically be reflected in your copy.
The name tries to visualize that transferring/sharing an application's state should be as easy as pouring a glass of water into another vessel.
We were cought a bit by surprise by this early publication, so we don't have anything downloadable, yet. But we are working on it and there should be something available in a few weeks or so.
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Ah, just a another name for VNC? And what if your network connectivity goes down? How do you then remotely operate your app? Show me!
Using Fluid you might not even notice, since each device has a version of the application and a full copy of the data. And the Fluid middleware takes care, that - as soon as the connection comes up again - the changes of the different replicas will be synchronized again in the background.
"... (watch out for low- vs high-endian issue, primarily)."
Since the prototype is in Java (which takes care of such "details") this is a non-issue.
No, it's not just another name for XML. Its a name for the idea/vision that your application state can be migrated to (an)other device(s) at any point in time and even remain synchronized! I.e. you can not only migrate that document onto your PDA and then continue working on it during the bus-ride and later on your home PC (and back again next morning), but you could even share a document with other users at any point in time and changes by them could automatically be reflected in your copy.
The name tries to visualize that transferring/sharing an application's state should be as easy as pouring a glass of water into another vessel.
We were cought a bit by surprise by this early publication, so we don't have anything downloadable, yet. But we are working on it and there should be something available in a few weeks or so.