references and searches Re: [Kroupware] Kroupware RFC

[Kervin L. Pierre]

Helge Hess wrote:

> 
> Well, so far I cannot see how a scalable web client can be written using 
> the architecture, sounds a bit like the information needs to be 
> replicated back into a database to host a sufficient number of web users 
> on a single server - but that would be against the initial design :-(
> But I need to think more about the issue.
> 

Or a decent application server can be used.

kinda offtopic but...

A well written J2EE application would be just as efficient as any client 
side application I suspect; we'd have a session and application scope to 
play with.  Plus the components ( beans ) could be reused in a desktop 
client if desired.  This would probably be true for most application 
servers.

A simple scripting language ( eg. PHP, Perl ), would call for temp 
directories ( like squirrelmail uses ) or temp tables in a DB ( which 
would call for a DB dependency ) and neither would scale well.

An application server, on the other hand, can keep a lot of those 
variables/datasets in memory if they're small enough, writing out only 
when it really needs too.  Large gains in performance and security. 
There are undoubtly lots of other optimizations that the app server can 
take advantage of that the simple scripting language based program would 
find difficult/impossible to implement

Squirrelmail is a great package, if PHP is decided to be the best option 
then a squirrelmail plugin would be a good direction.  But Squirrelmail 
seems to be hindered by its platform of choice; and I suspect any 
application written for a simple web language would have to deal with 
those problems.

>> KMail is responsible for caching the imap folder.
>> Simple maildir files with KMail indices
>> check  ls -al  ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/imap
>> But KOrganizer reads the contents, if you are interested in it,
>> you probably have to dig into the code a bit and then ask on the 
>> kde-pim list.
> 
> 
> OK.
> 
> Thanks for your answers,
>   Helge


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