Project Design

[wolfofthenorth]

Hi all.

I need some advice on a project design question. I want to run an Active X exe server that will have objects running in their own threads, so they may perform background operations. In theroy... would it be better to have a handfull of objects on a client or lots of objects on a dedicated server? I would think that a few objects on a client would be better, but I am in need of more inlighted opinions.

I'm sure there are going to be advantages to both situations, but being new to the idea of client server operations, would it be unreasonalbe to have a large number of objects marshall data back and forth a network? I don't plan to call the object all the time, but due to large numbers, the calls may add up quickly.

Thanks for any input

wolf

[Bill Crawley]

depends on the background tasks. If the tasks are pc based, then i'd opt for client. if they are generic, then I'd move the processing to the Server (maybe) I'd also then consider putting it under the control of MTS. Probably the biggest plus for puting it on the server is ease of maintainence.

[wolfofthenorth]

Thanks Bill.

I appreciate your advice. I want to have the objects perform data manipulation and then notify the users to the fact that it is complete, so they may have many tasks running at once. I guess that sounds like a server type situation. I just wasn't sure if it would be to much processing for a server to handle, or if the individual clients should process the data and write the files on their own.

Unfortunanty, I don't know MUCH (ok, anything) about MTS.

Thanks for your help.

Wolf