SENSE Mail Archive: SENSE> Event driven or Polling?

SENSE> Event driven or Polling?

Harry Lewis (harryl@us.ibm.com)
Wed, 10 Dec 1997 17:15:23 -0500

Jay, I've started trying to follow the SENSE discussion about job event=
s and
came across this...

>Imagine a client application designed as a "personal job monitor"
>that continually monitors a defined list of printers, looking
>for Editions that represent jobs associated with the app's user.
>Let's call such an Edition a "Job Edition" here.

OK, but this in not what I want to imagine. This sounds like polling! Y=
ou went
on to say...

>Whenever a Job Edition is found that appears to be related to
>the user, the app subscribes to the Edition.

Great, event based from that point!

I may be reacting to something that was only meant to be illustrative t=
o the
discussion.
Do you really expect Sense based job Monitoring to require application=
s to
poll for editions?

Harry Lewis - IBM Printing Systems
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