General talk about software patterns

["Siddle, James" <james.siddle AT siemens.com>]

On the face of it it sounds like you could use a fairly simple client-server architectural pattern, where your workstations connect to the central reporter to deliver reports. Alternatively your central reporter could collect the data from the workstations in a 'round-robin' style. You would also need to establish how your clients and servers discover each other, e.g. are the clients configured with the details of the server, or vice versa?

 

Jim

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From: Reza Razavipour [mailto:rrazavipour AT stbernard.com]
Sent: 20 April 2006 00:42
To: patterns-discussion AT cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: [patterns-discussion] pattern to apply to centralized reporting

To all,

I have a software that runs on Windows, it has reporting built in, from a database. So customers buy this and install on their workstations. The problem is that each workstation can report on their own data only. I need to come up with an architecture for a central reporter to allow for a consolidated report of all these workstations aggregated data.

Anyone can tel where to go to learn about my options.

Thanks,

Reza