Offline clients

I am building an addition to an existing application, based on an Oracle 10g database with a Powerbuilder user interface and a lot of the logic in packages.
The existing application is a network design tool, it contains the location, address, technical info and hierarchy of components in a network. The technical data is all theoretical, it is designed and calculated. But now we want to extend this application and add measured data.
The data is measured by technicians, using a laptop and measuring device and is usually done offline. Although there is no network, we still need to be able to have access to the data and logic in our central database. So we need replication. Install a local server (xe?) on each client and synchronise the data with the server. Most of the data that the client needs is read only. The technician adds measured data and links it to a known component in the network. The measured data must be synchronised with the server on the next opportunity.
Is replication the way to do this? When I read the oracle documentation about replication it is all about multiple servers and not in a client/server model where the client can be offline.
Thanks!
Rob
Edited by: Pleiadian on Nov 24, 2009 10:24 PM

Replication will be an expensive solution compared to the obvious solution: connect all PCs to the network.
Also replication requires a network connection.
Apparently you seem to have a n-multi master situation (all clients will be masters as soon as they replicate their data). This will be very difficult to manage and cause gray hair, baldness or high blood pressure or worse.
Sybrand Bakker
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Edited by: user779004 on Feb 17, 2009 9:39 PM
Edited by: user779004 on Feb 17, 2009 9:39 PM
Edited by: user779004 on Feb 17, 2009 9:41 PM
Edited by: user779004 on Feb 17, 2009 9:43 PM

Hi Arvindh,
The issue was solved after i cleared cookies and offline client, i was a browser issue.
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