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[Vincent Wiencek <vwiencek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Philipp Heckel
<philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> > I'm just saying that native libraries could a priori be downloaded as
> > a gradle dependency (I'll try to test it ...)
> Awesome ;-)
>
> > No sure, i'm just thinking that tray menu is not necessarily a basis
> > pop-up menu with menu items / separators. It can easily be a complex
> > panel (see previous dropbox screenshots)
> It could, I agree, but I don't see the benefits just yet. Let's start
> slow ..
>
> > or something like Hazelcast, which proposes observable maps / lists .....
> > You just need to register to map/queue changes ....
> It should be something that most clients/GUIs could implement, right? I
> don't think that Hazelcast a web standard, so it's probably not the
> right way.
>
Ok


>
> So the options are:
> 1) REST with long-polling
> 2) WebSockets
>

We could write a simple asynchronous bi-directionnal socket web-server ?
only advantage of websocket in this context would then be the possibility
to communicate with syncany damon from other languages / platforms in a
standard way .....
I'll look at websockets libraries for java


>
> What do you think?
> Fabrice? Gregor? Any opinions?
>
> Best
> Philipp
>
>


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Vincent Wiencek
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