[Pipet Devel] PAOS and the Work Flow System

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Carlos Maltzahn wrote:
> 
> The communication between Paos clients and server uses Python's pickle
> module plus some optimizations. The pickle module lets you serialize
> Python objects into strings so you can send them over the net. There is no
> specified standard for the pickle protocol.

Part of PAOS's role in the WFS should be to keep track of the XML files being
transfered around (data ID's stored as objects?).  So when the transfer of
pickeled PAOS objects is made across the Net, the objects are unpickeled, and
the Internet AppBroker should get some indication as to where the XML is and how
to get it.

Can the XML's be attached to the pickeled PAOS objects when transferred?

> Sorry for not contributing too much to this list lately. My defense is on
> Friday and chaos reigns. :)

No problem.


Buh-bye,
Jeff
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