From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,303eaa2809e8de24,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-01 16:36:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!peernews!peer.cwci.net!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada Technogies suitable for the following Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Inktomi-Trace: pc2-bbrg1-4-cust58.ren.cable.ntl.com 1033515394 12699 80.4.70.58 (1 Oct 2002 23:36:34 GMT) Message-ID: <7kqm9.2667$vk5.27376@newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:35:32 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.1.224.5 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net 1033515395 80.1.224.5 (Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:36:35 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:36:35 BST Organization: ntl News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29450 Date: 2002-10-02T00:35:32+01:00 List-Id: Hi, Looking for Ada technologies suitable for a project involving communication between a client on someones pc and a server somewhere. The server is responsible for responding to requests which can either be XML files containing a catalogue of search results, or a media file. It is also responsible for user account management, involving the crediting of user accounts. The client allows the user to query the XML file for results, and approving downloads of media files. The idea is to free up the server as much as possible. The idea is that each user should buy a pay an amount of money up front and be allowed to download media up to the value of credit on their account. They may update their credit at any time, allowing them to download more media. What technologies could be used for this? Obviously there is XML/Ada for the XML element, but what else? AWS looks like a good bet for the communication between client and server, although I'm not sure of it's overall suitability (never done any network programming before and just downloaded it, so am ignorant of it's capabilities). I was thinking of GtkAda for the gui component of the client, but am unsure of the status of the Windows port of GtkAda 2.0. I will check this on the gtkada client list. What are peoples thoughts? Are there any Ada technologies you think might be useful? This is really an exploration of the technologies available for such a project, there is no real commitment or even intent to do anything serious with the idea. If sufficient technologies exist, I may reconsider, but I am very busy with other things. Regards, Chris Campbell -- for personal replies change 'spamoff' to 'chris'