On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:06:35 +1300, Barrett <barrett666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just have a vague idea for what the Services Server is good for. Could
you please add to the doc what the problems are and how services server
solve them? Just to make sure that we are talking about the same
stuff ;-)
I'll explain here how the implementation try to solve the problems :
* Provide a high-level API for creating services addon.
Without using directly the fs api the system can provide functionalities
that equals to a real file system implementation. How to implement
notifications in add-ons? i'm wondering something like MessageReceived().
* A centralized entity will help to manage things like contact sync in a
more flexible way, every
modification in the virtual directories can be handled and notified
easily.
With a server in the middle, you can be sure that apps and users will
respect your rules.
There is nothing preventing users to not use this API and this
compromises the whole approach, right? The user could just use tracker
or the terminal to confuse the add-ons.
