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Re: Newbie Question

On Jul 13, 2004, at 3:43, Quinn wrote:

At 22:54 +0000 12/7/04, Maxwell Robertson wrote:
Can anyone offer advice on how to start developing a client - server application?

What can you tell us about:

o the platform requirements? (what version of Mac OS X?, would you like to support other platforms?)

o the development environment? (we've had a lot of Pascal questions on the list recently :-), but there are other concerns (CW vs Xcode, Mach-O vs CFM, etc))

o the expected workload? (total bandwidth, number of transactions per second, number of clients)

o the protocol? (what do you need to transmit between the client and the server?)

Your answers to these questions will significantly affect my suggestions.

Some additional advice:

1) Follow Quinn's advice;

2) Invest in a book by W. Richard Stevens, called "Unix Network Programming". It is in 3 editions by now. The second is in two volumes, the first dealing with the socket and XTI APIs. It has been rewritten, in a 3rd edition, by someone other than Stevens, but I suspect it is still a good resource. These books go into some detail on the subject of client-server design and implementation, and include plenty of example code (which is available on the web).

Regards,

Justin

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