http://www.laszlosystems.com/developers/learn/documentation/tutorials/
data_app_7.php
To do a dril-ldown the Flash Client, Laszlo (God I hate typing that)
invokes a Web service that:
1) invokes a JSP program
2) the JSP program Queries the DB
3) the JSP Prog converts the query to XML
4)the Laszlo (God I hate typing that) program manipulates the XML
5) the XML is sent to the client
Unless I am way 'round the bend, that's a lotta' crap!
Is XML to become the internal lingua franca of web apps (computer
programs) -- if so we all better get jobs with SBC
Dick
On Mar 29, 2004, at 8:33 PM, PC Wroble wrote:
> FORGET flex! Go Laszlo!
>
> I was sick of waiting for flex since the beta list was so small so
> I've been playing around with Laszlo (LPS) for a while. It rocks! I
> figured Flex would be priced out of range of us small guys and of
> course it is. I actually thought it would start at about $5000 per cpu
> which is way out of range of us small guys but it's even more than I
> imagined.
> I had previously noted:
>
> >>But, since MM gives away the Flash player and Sells The IDE, I think
> >>anything that provides an alternative to buying the IDE is a
> >>competitor, No?
> >
> >Well, yes, if this were really an alternative IDE. Laszlo does not
> have an
> >IDE that I see. They assume you'll use another IDE to code your
> Laszlo
> >applications (which is fine by me). Further, from what I read on
> various
> >mailing lists from the true Flash pros, most of *them* don't even
> use the
> >Flash IDE for most of their development work (most of which is in
> >ActionScript).
>
> See how use Eclipse as a Laszlo IDE at:
> http://www.laszlosystems.com/developers/community/forums/
> showthread.php?s=&threadid=751
>
> >>One thing I haven;t been able to determine is what LZ (Hate typing
> >>Laszlo) sells -- and how much it costs.
> >
> >They sell the J2EE EAR/WAR file that contains the Laszlo engine.
> It's akin
> >to how Macromedia (most likely) will be offering the Flex engine
> when it's
> >done (integration with Blackstone aside, perhaps). As for price,
> they seem
> >to be like any other vendor who sells a pricey product....you have
> to work
> >through a sales person to negotiate cost! Macromedia does with with
> products
> >like Breeze, for example.
>
> Laszlo has changed their pricing/version model. For most of it's life
> they just had the Enterpise Edition which was out of reach of small
> guys. Just a few weeks ago they were selling the Professional Edition
> for $995 (or $999) and the Enterprise Edition for $2495 (or $2499).
> Last week they rebranded the Professional Edition as the Express
> Edition and changed the price to $1999 and you now have to call the
> for pricing on the Enterprise edition. They probably had a run on the
> Pro edition and realized they could get more for it plus they must of
> had wind of the Flex pricing. In version 2 of the Developer Edition it
> supported simultaneous connections from up to 2 remote IP addresses
> per hour.��In version DE 2.1 that was released the other day they
> changed it to support simultaneous connections from up to 5 remote IP
> addresses per hour. Last week they also released the Non-Commercial
> Edition which is free for no-commercial use. That should make it a hit
> with non-profits &! other non-commercial uses.
>
> With the outrageous pricing of Flex and considering most of my
> clients are non-profits then Laszlo is for me. I'll be deleting the
> idea Flex from my memory now.
>
> PC
>
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