[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am creating a web application where I access a database on a SQL > server machine from local networked PC's via Javascript and HTML. > Unfortunately, Microsoft does not allow the ado intervace to fire > events back using Javascript or VBScript. I am trying to figure out how > to notifiy each client that is connected to the server whenever the > database changes. What I think might work well is to have a client > activeX component built with Python embedded in the html page that > receives event notification from a server component embedded in an ASP > page or maybe an HTML I don't know yet. At any rate, Can I create a COM > server / client component set with Python? > You can most certainly create COM server with Python. This sounds like a job for AJAX (asynchronous javascript and xml). Use javascript xmlrpc client code to asynchronously talk to a xmlrpc server application (you can write in python+twisted).
If you choose to go this way, you might want to take a look here: http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/ Hope information helps. -Larry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
