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serge@b... wrote: > Up until now, syncing data was unavoidable. [snip] > Today however, especially in the mobile/wireless/PDA world, we are at the eve > of GPRS and other technologies allowing permanent connections to the Internet > other networks and therefore have constant access to the sources of information > we were syncing with originally. The concept of on-line/off-line will no longer > be. Will synchronisation technology (and standards like SyncML) therefore still > > be required? A simple answer: Most definitely. In a previous life, I did a lot of work for this sort of information collation system etc. We ran everything from PDAs to workstations all collecting huge amounts of data. Data included Link 11 radar feeds (up to 1000 individual tracks per second), motion & IR sensors, still and video cameras, STT from radio feeds and numerous "other" sources of data. Huge amounts of information going into databases, collated, sorted, correlated and then analysed. We could use this information on the PDA to do wireless planning and recon tasks. We would only sync when needed. To that project, and many others like it, live information for the small device would absolutely cripple the system. Thousands of updates a second on a screen barely big enough to spill a cup of coffee on with relatively untrained users would be just asking for a nightmare. Syncing is a very nice way for us to package up a bunch of _meaningful_ information and controlling the flow to the end users so that they don't get too confused and/or don't recieve appropriate types of information. I could probably pick at least a handful of other application areas off the top of my head where this same situation would apply. -- Justin Couch Author, Java Hacker http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ J3D.org The Java 3D Community Site ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." - Greg Bear, Slant -------------------------------------------------------------------
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