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Can ACEDB be networked?

April 26, 2017ACEDB networked

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Can ACEDB be networked?

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A4: ACEDB Client / Server Computing (from Doug Bigwood, aug97) There are several client/server models for ACEDB computing and several more are in development. The start of the ACEDB client/server age began with the inclusion of aceclient and aceserver in version 4.0. These are C – based and use the RPC protocol for communication. These executables can be made from the standard ACEDB distributions. Starting in version 4.5 an xaceclient is also included with ACEDB. Xaceclient provides remote read/write access to an aceserver while providing the user with the same X displays that are found in xace. To use it, you create an empty database with the appropriate models and start xaceclient. It will automatically retrieve data from the server declared in wspec/server.wrm (the Montpellier server in the distribution server.wrm). The data will be saved locally and can then be viewed with a normal xace. A perl extension which provides aceclient functionality to Perl 5.x was developed at ACE95. The