Communicating between two computers

[donotspam-jen@personic.com]

Yes, I think for the first version I will do this (no need to deal with
multi-threading or the network this way). But after the initial version
works (hopefully later today), I'll try to move on to one of the other
methods described above, probably starting with XML-RPC if I can find more
info on it.

Thanks, all!

Jen

"Dale Strickland-Clark" <dale at out-think.NOSPAMco.uk> wrote in message
news:8jlmj0$r1q$1 at supernews.com...
> Start simple.
>
> Unless this is particularly time critical, I'd create a folder on the
Build
> server  and share it with suitably limited access.
>
> Give the Web server write access to the folder.
>
> The Web server writes a batch file or Python script to the shared
directory.
>
> Every few minutes the Build server checks this folder for a file and
> executes it.
>
> If you need some feedback, it could change the name of the file or move it
> to a subdirectory while it's running so the Web server can see it's
active.
>
> --
> Dale Strickland-Clark
> Out-Think Ltd, UK
> Business Technology Consultants
>
> donotspam-jen at personic.com <dnotspam-jen at personic.com> wrote in message
> news:395d48b3$0$21842 at wodc7nh0.news.uu.net...
> > FYI, I'm doing all of this on Windows NT, in case that makes a
difference
> > ...
> >
> > Is there a good way to get a script on one computer to talk to a script
on
> > another computer?  The process I'm thinking of is pretty simple ... I
want
> a
> > script on a Web server to be able to send a command to a build server to
> > start a build process.  I'd also like the Web server to be able to query
> the
> > build servers to find out their status (so that two builds do not run at
> > once on the same machine, for example).
> >
> > I've read a little about SOAP, but I think that my needs are probably a
> lot
> > simpler than that.  The easiest way to accomplish this is to setup a Web
> > server on each of the build machines, too, I guess ... but I was hoping
> that
> > I could just have the scripts that run on the build servers run as NT
> > services.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jen
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>