title: How to do cloud computing with Python and Java? Final Year project
body: <p>For my final year project I plan to code a cloud in Python. The client will be written in Java by the other member of my team. The client will have a tabbed interface and it will provide a text editor, a media player, a couple of small Java based games and a maybe a few more services.  </p>
  
  <p>The server will work like this:  </p>
  
  <p>1) Validate the user.  </p>
  
  <p>2) Send a file, called "dump" to the user. Dump will contain all the file names and file types that the user created by himself or the files which the user can read/write. This info will be fetched from the database.  </p>
  
  <p>3) The tabs in the client will display the file types associated with the tab application. e.g the media tab will only select and show the media files from the dump readable by user. The text editor tab will show only the txt files from the dump readable by the user.  </p>
  
  <p>4) A request to open the file will send the file back to client, which the associated application will open. </p>
  
  <p>5) All the changes made to the files and all the actions (overwriting, saving, deleting   etc.) will be sent back to the server along with the new object. Something similar will be done to the newly created objects.</p>
  
  <p><strong>My Questions are:</strong></p>
  
  <p>What are the best approaches for the communication between the client and the server. For the dump I plan to use some sort of encrypted XML file. For the other way round, I don't have a clue :/.  </p>
  
  <p>For easy integration with the database, I was planning to use <em>Django</em> (which I started few days back). How can I send my requests from the client to the server (without Django I'd use SQL queries) and the files from the server to the client? Maybe <em>GET</em> and <em>POST</em> will work for the former problem? Any other suggestions?</p>