> > I don't add any extra languages <g>. WebHub is Delphi, and
> > OOP through and through.
> Ok - as I say, I have not had experience in WebHub but if you are going
> to toe the MS line on Web Apps (as we all must <g>) you are going to
> have multi-language projects.
No, we dont have to. Have a look at JSP some time. It looks very similar
to ASP, and if you use JRun (www.livesoftware.com) its very close,
syntax aside. Replace ActiveX objects with JavaBeans (which can then
talk to CORBA servers which can be written in pretty much any language
you like), and you get JSP.
Oh, and this too: my current system is NT running IIS4 and JRun. I can
deploy on Linux with Apache and GNUJSP or any of the other ones in the
time it takes me to set it all up - no code changes AT ALL. Or on
Solarus if the box gets bigger than NT can handle - which is not hard.
Java being a multiplatform GUI, IMO, sucks. But multiplatform at the
server side, rocks.
>
> > as NS 1.2. I've never liked any of the MS browser line (IE5 has
> > *some* promise) but supporting them all is not a big problem.
> Have to disagree coming from a ASP background - for a rich UI in HTML
> you really start to need DHTM
> l, Javascript etc in order to handle common UI tasks such as right click
> pop up menus, combo's filled on the fly, tabbed notebooks etc.
Can't argue with this much :) MS-DHTML rocks. I dont like the MS
position in the market (who does, aside from Bill), but IE is, from a
programming point of view, a vastly better browser. It is lightyears
ahead in consistancy (IE4 pages work in 4.01, 4.01SP1, 4.01SP2 and IE5.
Netscape from 4.0 to 4.6 break at random versions in random ways). For
those who argue, try this:
Title: Netscape fails Math.101
<TABLE WIDTH=600>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH=200>
something
</TD>
<TD>
something else
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
IE will render it as 600 wide, border of 0, left column 200 wide, right
one 400 wide, font the same as the rest of the page.
NS will render it with a BORDER of 1 (tho its not visible, it still
takes the space as a blank), left column a random width, right one
whatever remains. Font is also whatever the default font that netscape
has set.
Its pathetic. Try it.
> The approach we took was to use ASP -> COM Middle tier -> DB on the
> server which saves having any sort of database access layer on the
> client, but if you are using say an ActiveX client app that executes on
> the client machine then how does it link to a database (say SQL7 or
> Interbase), on the server?
One word: CORBA. Or sockets. ie, MIDAS. My preference is definatly
CORBA.
> Most probably but then if WebHub is the only answer then the options
> seem pretty limited.
:) - Not being suckered by that large bait, Peter :)
Nic.
Java convert.
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