Re: OT: Remote objects WAS: Re: [pygame] InteractiveConsole

["R. Alan Monroe" <amonroe@columbus.rr.com>]

> trivial task to integrate one system to another.  For instance, let's
> say I'm in the accounting department and I want to credit vacation time 
> to the HR department's employee roster.  They are running PeopleSoft and 
> I'm running SAP.  Instead of having to write some sort of translation 
> layer or staging tables on an intermediate database I can just through 
> together a remote object on the HR systems that defines a method 
> "creditVacationHour(String employeeID, int numberOfHours)".  Then my 
> accounting folk can through into their code a line that calls this 
> remote method.  Tadah!  Problem solved.  Now anyone in the company (with 

This is the kind of answer I was looking for - a real world
application, and jargon free explanation!!!!!! THanks!

Alan