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Simon, I attended a presentation in April at the Seattle XML-SIG meeting by Christopher Jones of Planet 7 Technologies that touched on that very subject. They've been working on an XML server product that gets away from the hub-spoke model. It does real-time XML interactions, without passing the entire XML document back and forth through a central hub. I checked their website, and evidently they're preparing for their product release, and so no information is available. If I'd known I was getting a pre-announcement preview, I'd have taken better notes! However, I remember at the time that what he was talking about struck me as being very much like Domain Name Service, in that XML Server X doesn't know anything about XML Server Z, but it does know XML Server Y, who happens to know Z. And so the data makes it around the circuit. They have, as I recall, two modes of propagation. One is a "broadcast" mode, which does nothing to ensure all parties get the XML, and another that certifies that the XML gets to the intended recipients. I wish I could go into more detail, but the architecture was more like a tree than a hub-spoke model. Trees could be joined together, and they didn't necessarily have to be joined at one point. Regards, Mike Sharp Lante Corporation msharp@l... "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> on 04/24/2000 09:12:49 AM To: XML-DEV" <xml-dev@x...>"@hesketh.net (E-mail) cc: (bcc: Mike Sharp/Lante) Subject: what Napster means for XML Has anyone done XML-specific work toward these kinds of architectures? *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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