On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, John Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Mike Fitzpatrick <fitz-at-noao.edu> wrote:
>>
>> That said, I'd still like to have an 'app' class of messages
>> since not every administrative message will be coming from the hub.
>> My sense is that app.echo and app.isAlive really mean the same thing
>> and could be just 'app.ping' or somesuch (after all, if an app isn't
>> alive it would never respond, but then neither would any other message).
>
> I'd agree with that. I put the echo message in just for test purposes as
> something I could send and not cause any side effects. ping does the same
> job.
following this up belatedly - for consistency I plan (unless anyone objects) to rename the Standard Profile hub method isAlive() to ping(). As Mike points out, ping is a less confusing label for this functionality.
Mark
-- Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK m.b.taylor@bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/Received on 2008-06-13Z16:07:03