Borland's Database Engine is popular with several legal products, like
WestMate and Timeslips.
http://www.borland.com/bde/engine3x.html
It's a back end that hooks up with any development environment that can
call a DLL, which should include REBOL someday, I guess. The usual idea
is to write the frontend in C++ or whatever, and let the BDE manage the
data. I suppose this would also work with REBOL/Command, or its
successor.
The other hoary beast is report-quality printing, which is critical in
a legal billing application.
-Ted.
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On 1/24/2000 at 1:13 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi:
Now that /View has been defined a little better for us, I wanted to get
the
list's opinion about the project that I have on my desk and whether
Rebol
might be appropiate for it.
My employer has written a professional time accounting package directed
at
the legal profession. Right now I'm in the process of converting the
data
from propietary ISAM structures into DBF's with the necessary data
normalization. I want to roll out an application that will work within
a
traditional firm network, and over the internet with very little
rewrite
between the two versions. Right now the languages that I'm
considering
are:
Visual Foxpro - there is a third party package that converts the VFP
forms
to HTML forms.
handles data and persistance.
Java - don't know much about this - but its the lingua franca of the
internet. Generally, I don't like the language structure.
Smalltalk - either IBM, Cincom, or Squeak also don't know much - but
looks
like fun.
REBOL - I've read the 10 steps - and followed the discussion. I
realize
that the Database support is not there yet, but it looks very
promising.
I have the luxury of waiting for REBOL to develop abit as the data
normalization should take a bit longer to do. Any thoughts
