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Design pattern for client/server sessions?

Are there any common patterns or general guidance I can learn from for how to design a client/server system where the both the client and server must maintain some kind per-client session state? I've ...
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REST vs RPC for mobile development

As many know, mobile development is skyrocketing these days and, I believe, it affects what we code. To be specific, I am interested in developing web services for a mobile application. I see two ...
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Multiprocess RPC Architecture Design

I am currently working on a project that has client applications communicating with a server process. The client applications could be local to the same machine as the server process, on the same ...
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Why does Java require a servlet container for simple RPC service?

I have a big database controller which is written in Java. The controller reads information from the database, and interprets it into data structures which are then displayed in a CLI. Java was ...
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Building an RPC framework

I'm curious about what it takes to build a simple and robust RPC framework. I've only looked at a few ruby frameworks but they are all lacking in some way. What I want out of an RPC framework is some ...
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STAF/STAX and python alternative

We are looking into replacing some homegrown pieces and the candidates are: STAF (http://staf.sourceforge.net/) anything mature in python My colleague Kevin has looked into STAF so I am ...
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How we call an RPC that not only calls external functions but also updates data structures?

I have a simple C++ RPC that lets you have remote class instances that support live members (data structures) update as well as method calls. For example I had a class declared like this (pseudocode): ...
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When are RPC-ish approaches more appropriate than REST?

After watching this talk on REST, Reuse and Serendipity by Steve Vinoski, I wonder if there are business cases in greenfield projects for (XML-)RPC-ish setups, that REST could not solve in a better ...
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Call a script over the network

I have a Python script on a box that I want to call from a Java server, over the network. I know that I can start a server on the Python side and then connect to it from the Java site, but I am trying ...
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Multiplayer Game Listen Servers: Ensuring Integrity

I'm making a simple multiplayer game of Tic Tac Toe in Python using Bridge (its an RPC service built over a message queue - RabbitMQ) and I'd like to structure it so that the client and the server are ...
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User Authentication. Database lookup vs RPC call

If we have more than one service that uses same database - is it ok to move out user authentication on separate server and use RPC calls, instead of traditional database lookup?