Hi there, Java Webstart would work reasonably well for client side deployment of the database and fat client. I use it for a PAF version that I have written. Synchronization could be part of the setup of the application. This way you have an offline version with online capabilities.
Kind regards, Manfred Riem [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.manorrock.org/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Hathaway Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:36 PM To: LDS Open Source Software Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking John Harrison wrote: > How many scoutmasters are going to have the skills to set up their own > database? Is this going to be an app that everybody can use or one > that will require a geek scoutmaster to set up and maintain? Is this > for 5% of the population or 95%? It's for the 95%. I made a comment earlier that any FTP or SSH account will do, but I don't think that's quite right anymore. There needs to be a web application that provides access control to the encrypted databases. It needs to prevent scouts from messing with the database. The church can be one host for that web application if it wants to be. Others can set up their own instances on behalf of their own troop or many troops. Maybe the BSA would want to host the web application. > Offering a fully functional website that troops can simply sign up for > and use will be more useful to more people than forcing people to > setup their own server for something like this. Give them the option > of downloading the app and setting up their own if they want to, but > don't force that process on people or this will be very lightly used. No, nontechnical folks will never be asked to set up a web site. (I've tried that before; it just doesn't work.) > I also think that being able to offer a client with a local copy of > data is a great idea. Merging can be greatly facilitated by > representing the data in a format such as XML in which tree compares > are easy to do and conflicts are easy to resolve. Hopefully. It's easy to write XML that's hard to merge. Shane _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
