lakshmi@[...].edu wrote:
>  
>  We are using the DOM as a repository for the state of the switch and in
>  order
>  to share the state, we need to share the dom.
>  We could possibly access it from a common file but the only problem with
>  accessing from a common
>  file is that the file is not going to be static, and at some point there
>  will be multiple editors of the file
>  so if there is a common file or common location it would have to manage
>  updates from all editors
>  and also manage passing changes to the multiple listeners, though maybe
>  that would make sense to do?
>  we could have a common data repository / we could have a central
>  repository for the DOM
>  that can be attached to JMS MQseries or other JMS queue implementation...

One solution is to use a native XML database that lets multiple users
share DOM trees over the same document. For example, I believe Infonyte
DB does this. For a list of native XML databases, see:

   http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/ProdsNative.htm

-- Ron

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