We've also had some discussions about possible APIs for a next generation of components which might use javascript and JSON datastructures rather than XML primarily.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Quirino Zagarese <quir...@laszloitalia.org > wrote: > I'm really interested in JSON support, but I have to say eu4ria gives its > best with Laszlo replication. > I wonder if JSON datasets could be a valuable investment in future. > Regards, > > Quirino > > 2009/10/23 Max Carlson <m...@openlaszlo.org> > > 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 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Quirino Zagarese >>> >>> Italian OpenLaszlo Community - www.laszloitalia.org < >>> http://www.laszloitalia.org> >>> >>> EU4RIA: Laszlo+Java, easily - eu4ria.googlecode.com < >>> http://eu4ria.googlecode.com> >>> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Max Carlson >> OpenLaszlo.org >> > > > > -- > Quirino Zagarese > > Italian OpenLaszlo Community - www.laszloitalia.org > > EU4RIA: Laszlo+Java, easily - eu4ria.googlecode.com > -- Henry Minsky Software Architect hmin...@laszlosystems.com
