This is very cool!
I've been wanting to update the laszlo-rails client code for a while now
to keep a dataset in sync with a server-side model automatically. When
the dataset value is changed, the corresponding object on the server
should be automatically updated. Paging for large datasets was also
supported. Both of these are very useful for tabular data, but they
currently require XML data - because datasets do. JSON isn't as useful
in many cases because there's no way to do replication and receive
change events in Laszlo - but it's certainly lighter-weight, and
partially solves the typing problem that XML data requires a schema for...
In any case, the client/server protocol should use XML or JSON so it can
be implemented for other server-side languages.
Quirino Zagarese wrote:
Hi,
I've been a Laszlo user for more than 3 years and, as you maybe know, I
manage the Italian community.
In my development experience I always missed a powerful tool to
integrate OL apps with Java back-ends.
This need made me create my own tool that I published as a googlecode
project.
You can see it as an alternative to OL java-rpc, but I think it can be
also seen as a start line to make OL users' life easier.
My question is: which features should such a tool provide to be really
useful and can it be a good way to make OL adoption wider? This is my
way to contribute to OL according to Tucker's manifesto
<http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?t=12997>.
Bests,
Quirino
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Quirino Zagarese
Italian OpenLaszlo Community - www.laszloitalia.org
<http://www.laszloitalia.org>
EU4RIA: Laszlo+Java, easily - eu4ria.googlecode.com
<http://eu4ria.googlecode.com>
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Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org
