http://ajaxian.com/archives/full-frontal-09-simon-willison-on-server-side-javascript-and-node-js
On Nov 20, 2009, at 19:30 , John Spackman wrote:
> Hi JB
>
> We’ve been using server-side JS for a while now, it forms the glue between
> pages and also the server side of the apps that we build. Each app is
> defined in XML and then compiled into Qx code for the client; the properties
> are kept synchronised between the client and the user’s session on the
> server, events fired on the client can be caught by the server, and functions
> can be called on the client by the server (or vice-versa). The widgets bind
> automatically to XML documents which are persisted in the database.
>
> Up until now, the server side JS for the Qx apps has been strictly procedural
> programming – i.e. functions only, and reuse is by including other .js files.
> There has always been scope to really improve server side integration by
> building smart objects rather than being restricted to just a function call,
> but it’s been a low priority. Now that at least one app is getting
> particularly complex it’s more justifiable to look at it again.
>
> The app is for use on our customer’s extranet by external suppliers so we
> know our users quite well and we’re confident that scalability won’t be a
> problem – worst case is that we have to buy a couple of extra Gb of RAM J
>
> John
>
> From: Jean-Baptiste BRIAUD -- Novlog [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 20 November 2009 8:06 AM
> To: qooxdoo Development
> Subject: Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Using Qooxdoo core in a non-Web environment
>
> HI John,
>
> I didn't try it but I'm thinking to it since long time, at least for some
> part of the server code.
> I would be very interested to know the context of your project.
> How did you arrive to that idea ?
> What are the big figures of your project : number of end-user, do you have a
> database, do you have SQL ...
> How will you address the persistence of the data manipulated by the qx
> application ?
> Concurrency on server side ?
> Scalability ?
>
> Regards,
> JBB.
>
> On Nov 19, 2009, at 17:34 , John Spackman wrote:
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> We have some server side code that is written in Javascript and is executed
> by Rhino; I am *so* pleased to have a proper object model when developing
> client code but the more complex the server side gets the more I want to
> develop server classes in the same way.
>
> Has anyone experimented with a non-GUI, server-only version of the Qx
> framework?
>
> I’d be really interested to know if anyone has experimented with this before,
> and/or what the potential issues might be in making Qx server-side
> compatible. For example, my (completely uninformed) guess is that the
> generator would work just fine except that the bootloader it produces would
> need to work differently (i.e. loading of scripts etc), and potentially there
> might need to be a way to exclude some classes or packages.
>
> On a possibly related note, how does the qx.application.Native get used?
>
> Regards
> John
>
>
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