RE: [GD-Windows] Process communication

[Jon W. <hp...@mi...>]

The official solution is DCOM. Unfortunately, that's about as far 
from designed-for-games as you can come. In games, the real-time 
nature of a message ("I want it now") is much more important than 
something like "reliable, in-sequence delivery". This means that 
any RPC-like mechanism is doomed to failure, except for non-time-
critical operations. Of course, those, you'd like to take care of 
before the game even starts, using some protocol like rsync.

In your problem description, it was somewhat un-clear whether you 
were looking for a workflow/verioning system for in-house 
development and release management, or a run-time remote data 
management system. If what you meant was the former, I would 
suggest Perforce because of it's fast and flexible revision 
management, or possibly CVS because it's reliable and cheap.

Cheers,

			/ h+

>     What mechanisms should I be looking at in Windows for remote
> inter-object communication?