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Minutes of meeting 15/11/00 @ 11am |
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Location: UKC Computer Science Meeting Room |
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Present: ab11, ajm4, pjm2, tdb1 |
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Absent: None |
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Meeting postponed until firealarm finishes. It is noted |
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that Ash and Paul would have been burnt alive if there |
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was a real fire. |
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Meeting re-started at 11:20am. |
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Discussed the XML packet life problem. This has been |
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identified as a problem because corba passes references |
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to objects making it hard to determine when the object |
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should be distroyed. |
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Paul begins implementation of a quotes page. |
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Paul suggests that packets should be stored in a queue |
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structure, with 2 integers indicating how far through |
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the queue each accessing function has got (from the start |
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of the queue). This should be more efficicent than |
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storing flags inside each of the XML packet objects. |
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Someone needs to find out if you can 'clone' an object |
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over corba. This would solve a lot of local copy problems. |
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Discussion of whether UDP packets should be numbered or |
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timestamped proved controversal. In the end it was decided |
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that each UDP packet should contain both a Sequence number |
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and a timestamp (as defined by the host). It is therefore |
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important that the host's time is setup accurately by the |
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sysadmin. |
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Meeting concluded @ 12:40 |
