Occasionally Connected Computing - OCC Frameworks and Implementations

OCC Frameworks and Implementations

In the case of the Curl language an alternate URI scheme is used to identify a resource which is to be used for OCC. Where a normal HTTP URL might be

{url "http://www.your-office.com/your-site.php" }

an OCC URI could be

{url "curl://occ/reconnect-as-needed" }

Such a URI redirects to the web when connected and to the local store when disconnected. The Smalltalk language is a special case because of the ability to save the bytecode image at run time. The possibilities using the REBOL 2.x runtime environment lie somewhere between Smalltalk and Curl 5.0 but may be extended with the release of REBOL 3.0 which is projected for late 2008 (a public alpha began in Jan 2008.)