i'm a little confused about your last message, are you intending to :

- replace my ajax client by nacre and call my web services ?
- create your own web service implementing nacre's engine, this web service
being called by my own web services?

this doesnt seem to be very clear to me ;)

my preference goes to the integration of your engine as a web service/web page
called by my server ... this would :

- make nacre available to everyone even if you are not logged in ...
- would automatically archive the games, provide replay functions and so on ...
- avoid me the publication of a calling spec for my web services .... this spec
would include the authentication process i use and therefore expose the
security of my server to cheaters and hackers :)

if you are ready to write a web service (hosted ... somewhere) or provide some
simple web pages (as described in my previous message) i'll do it for MLA first
and then provide you with a spec of the engine calls.

i think this thread should become private :

david

Selon Peer Sommerlund <peer.d.sommerlund@...>:

> --- In abalone_prog@yahoogroups.com, david.malek@... wrote:
> >
> > Selon Peer Sommerlund <peer.d.sommerlund@...>:
> >
> > > This is sort of what I had in mind. However, your AJAX must send the
> > > move to the server somehow. I figured that I could use the same
> > > interface. No need for me to build a web service.
> > >
> > Yeah, it sends the moves by calling a web service :) [...]
> >
> > My idea is definitely not to have nacre running on your PC with some
> interface
> > between my AJAX (on the client) and the nacre engine like you
> usually do with
> > NetAbalone, i dont want to call some TCP/IP socket protocol (eg
> abnet). This
> > would be a lot more complex than simply calling an URL (we are in
> 2006 lol, no
> > more 68000 assembly please).
>
> LOL, I don't know which is worst: JavaScript or 68000 assembly ;-)
> this just shows how old I am, I guess.
>
> But I agree, writing and calling a web service using IIS, Visual
> Studio and C# is a breeze. I'll probably use Code::Blocks, C++ and
> gSOAP or Axis, though.
>
> So, after a quick dive into your JavaScript, I guess you want me to
> use the web service at http://moggames.net/abalone/MiGs.asmx, right?
>
> Even though the operations have nice names like CreateUser and
> CreateSession, I still need to figure out how to use them. I could
> read through all JavaScript but I would appreciate a few lines on how
> to use it. This would save a lot of time :-) Do you have time to write
> a few lines on the use of the web service?
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