I'm an ISV looking at developing a new application and looking at Alpha Five to see if it would make the development quicker and easier.
We have two classes of customers; suppliers and brokers. They need to send data files (created by our other product) back and forth between them. These are relatively large files (40 - 100 MB). Currently, they use thumb-drives, email etc. I would like to integrate a "store and forward" drop box functionality into the product.
One part of the project requires a desktop client app:
The other part of the project requires a web site back-end:
Q1. Can we easily get this type of file transfer integration between the Alpha Five Desktop app and Alpha Five Web Application Server?
Q2. Can an Alpha Five Desktop app be installed as a service?
(If it can, we would just build the file transfer piece as the service app. And the user interface app would be separate.)
Thanks,
Synlap
We have two classes of customers; suppliers and brokers. They need to send data files (created by our other product) back and forth between them. These are relatively large files (40 - 100 MB). Currently, they use thumb-drives, email etc. I would like to integrate a "store and forward" drop box functionality into the product.
One part of the project requires a desktop client app:
- Every customer would run the desktop client
- Allows for choosing files to send, receive, etc.
- User schedules file transfers for "off hours"
- App connects to web back-end and transfers files
- Has minimal database requirements
- Would be nice if it could be installed as a service
The other part of the project requires a web site back-end:
- Accepts connections from desktop app and transfers files
- Acts as a temporary repository for the forwarded files
- Also supports customer interactive login
- Has database requirements
- Report generation and serving requirements
Q1. Can we easily get this type of file transfer integration between the Alpha Five Desktop app and Alpha Five Web Application Server?
Q2. Can an Alpha Five Desktop app be installed as a service?
(If it can, we would just build the file transfer piece as the service app. And the user interface app would be separate.)
Thanks,
Synlap
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