Matt:
The purpose of the aceserver/client is simple to allow a remote
user access to a database w/o having to have a complete copy of
the data locally. This is useful if a database changes frequently
and the user doesn't want the bother of keeping a local copy up-to-
date. Also, space for a database might be a problem. As you suggest
this would be an alternate to tace or WWW.
Also, we use the aceserver as a back end to our WWW interface (using
the perl aceclient) - see the documentation on http://probe.nalusda.gov .
Doug Bigwood
Couchman at BBSRC.AC.UK (Matt) wrote:
>Is there a quick summary available about the purpose of aceclient and
>aceserver? I have a lot of technical details about how to set them up.
>However I'm still unclear as to whether they are intended as an
>alternative to a local copy of xace and access to WWW. If not what extra
>features do they offer?
>>Thanks for any help,
>>Matt.
