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Foil 35 Remarks on Micro Tango IV

From Tango Futures: XML for Portals, Web-based Collaboration and Distance Education Rice University Tango Tutorial -- October 18 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Some interesting events are associated with Jini enabled entities registering themselves in a lookup service which registration generates events
2 For a pager, use one with a digital interconnect. It is essentially permanently connected
3 For a Palm V, buy digital modems and assume they intermittently dial in to connect to Micro Tango Agent
  • This sends summary of events that have received while palm disconnected. One can choose to discard or process
  • email conduits could be useful resource
  • One can from PC or Micro device, set flags to control which events are queued
4 Note that current Tango JavaScript shared browser (JSSB) has some similarities in architecture with that proposed here.
  • JSSB has two major windows. One (called by Tango) queues all incoming Tango messages. These are looked at in a continuous 0.5 second cycle and either executed, deferred or discarded. This architecture is required as one must wait for browser to load pages before enacting page associated events
  • AS with JSSB, this architecture naturally supporting event archiving.

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