On Jan 24, 2008 12:33 AM, ara.t.howard <ara.t.howard / gmail.com> wrote: > - use DRbUndumped to keep Foos on the server > > - store all active Foos in a list > > - provide a callback to the client when constructing the Foos, > possibly just a block passed to the method (since invocation of it > would run on the client) > > - whenever a new Foos is requested sweep the list invoking the > callbacks/blocks. if the client has evaporated this will throw - > nuke the Foo from the list Ah, yes, that should meet my needs. Thanks to everyone else who responded with ideas. -- Aaron Turner http://synfin.net/ http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing & replay tools for Unix They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin