RE: [Firebird-devel] Embedded superserver

[Alan M. <al...@me...>]

> A> but that's very rude isn't it? unlike a server which has a
> tendency to be
> A> left running all the time, a host application can be started
> and stopped
> A> frequently -
>
> my host application *is* a server and runs as a service. I'd think
> that anyone intending to embed (or otherwise implement) a server open
> to remote connections should take all the necessary precautions.
> Again, this is not specific to Firebird. In this context Firebird is
> just a component that I am using to build my server application. I
> would like that component to be in the form of a DLL rather than the
> current exe form.

but don't we already have this? it's called fbserver. You can write your
server application any way you wish and it can still talk to the server
service. Why do you need a dll to do the identical thing that the full
server does?

>
> A> you wouldn't get me connecting to a host app with little chance
> A> of me being able to save my work before they decided to switch
> off and go
> A> home for the night....
>
> ...which is also true for fbserver.exe running as an application.
>

nuh - I still don't understand what you want but I'll drop it now and watch
...

Alan