Re: [Communicator-user] volatile servers

[Samuel L. B. <sa...@mi...>]

Thomas K Harris wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I was reading in
> http://communicator.sourceforge.net/sites/MITRE/distributions/GalaxyCommunic
> ator/docs/manual/advanced/scriptless.html that server declarations are
> required in the hub program. Does this entail that it's not possible to
> create new servers once the hub has started?

Boy, it's been a long time since I thought about this stuff.

If I recall correctly (and there's no guarantee I do), the servers must 
be declared, but they don't have to be available at startup. That is, 
you can either declare a server that the Hub contacts when it starts, or 
a server "prototype" for which the Hub sets up a listener for the server 
to contact it. Either way, the Hub must know about all the various 
server types when it starts up, via the Hub script.

Cheers,
Sam Bayer