[news.eclipse.technology.riena] Re: Online/Offline Synchronization Workf

[Filippo Carone <filippo.carone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ekke ha scritto:
> but for the online/offline sync this will be no solution.
> I would look to find a good sync-service-solution and then try
> to integrate this with Riena

I guess there's no general solution to this problem. Everytime we tried 
to implement this concept in our client/server app, we entered in a 
world of pain. In our experience the users are not accustomed to think 
online/offline mode and in general would not know how to correct 
eventual conflicts during a merge (in svn terms of merge and conflict).

I also see optimistic locking to be a showstopper here.

Anyway, has anyone taken a closer look at google gears to see how it 
makes it possible to run the app while offline?

Cheers,
Filippo