[Pipet Devel] finding the middle (was: we're back)

[J.W. Bizzaro]

"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote:
> 
>         (a) Fronts and middles need to be initialized together.  The
>             user cannot plug a front into a middle that has already
>             begun building a workflow diagram (at least for now).
> 
>         (b) Since the Web interface will start multiple middles (one
>             per Web user), fronts need to know which middle it is
>             plugged into.

Okay, now how do you launch 3 separate processes (2 fronts and 1 middle) and
have them all find each other?  And how do the fronts find the right middle if
there's more than 1 middle running?

Any suggestions?

Jeff
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