Hello Matt,
Firstly, you are correct that the documentation that you reference is
obsolete. It predates OL4! I don't know how it remains on the
openlaszlo.org site, but I have filed at JIRA task to have it taken
down ASAP, as it's needlessly confusing. As the doc guy at
openlaszlo, I apologize for your goose chase. Please see instead the
most recent version of this chapter:
http://labs.openlaszlo.org/legals-nightly/docs/guide/architecture.html
Second, as of 4.0.2 the XML-RPC APIs now work in both DHTML and SWF
runtimes in SOLO mode -- no LPS required.
Third, that Guestblox application is ancient and its code has not
been updated in at least two years. It's probably not a good point
of reference except in the very general sense. You are correct that
the documentation is not especially helpful in explaining how to
construct a RESTful OpenLaszlo application. We have been working on
an example application with supporting documentation and hope to post
it to OpenLaszlo.org very soon -- hopefully, before next week is
out. I think this will go a long way towards answering your general
questions.
Finally, there is some (very spare) documenation of the LPS server
interface on the OpenLaszlo Wiki:
http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/LPS_server_API
Our goal is to (eventually) provide sufficient documentation such
that interested third parties could implement the LPS in languages
other than Java.
I hope this helps,
jrs
On May 29, 2007, at 12:04 AM, Matt Rosin wrote:
Thank you, especially Patricio and Geoff for your help.
Yes, my concern about functionality lacking in SOLO deployment
mode. So now I can use XMLRPC/SOAP and get anything important
directly from the SOLO binary without needing the LPS? Then I
suppose this page is outdated.
http://www.openlaszlo.org/lps/docs/guide/architecture.html
Patricio do you think you might like to share your experience with
Perl and OpenLaszlo? You (or I) could mention it on perlmonks.org.
I have not been able to find a single example of Perl and
OpenLaszlo yet, and a Catalyst example would be great.
I still don't really know what functionality is going to be missing
if I use Catalyst plus a Flash binary. If you can point me to
documentation on this I'd appreciate it. What I really want is a
Catalyst version of the LPS I think! I just deployed a FastCGI/
Catalyst app that is quite satisfying.
I'll check out OpenLaszlo again. Thanks!
Sincerely,
Matt
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