Hello, I also vote for this, thank you Nicolas to point it out, hopefully there is time and resource for that for 6.1.
But also, I must say I see 0 valid reason that the "server" layer itself doesn't enforce similar standard. Today the HTTP (XML/RPC) server layer is easily a vulnerable point of the OpenERP architecture if exposed, so I think you should be able to run the server layer on Apache or Ngnix or Twisted in a similar way, even if the NetRPC hacky protocol could be still be something artisanal in the meanwhile. Notice that there are such professional grade servers where objects are passed serialized such as NetRPC. In the Java world specifically, J2EE servers expose business objects in standard way via the Enterprise JavaBeans. Don't get me wrong I'm not telling we should be that bloated, and I'm not for that serialized non cross platform format AT ALL. I very much prefer the open world of the Internet with XML and HTTP messages if not REST. Meaning ideally, NetRPC or even better a JSON layer at the "server" level such as Tryton has already (and not an extra layer forcing to double marshall/unmarshall the stuff as the new web-client) should be first citizens of the platform and should be exposed on standard robust webservers. I only wanted to tell that even frameworks that went for serialized non cross language formats could still adopt standards and OpenERP not (is there such a popular server standard for serialized objects in the Python world?). Only exposing the NetRPC and closing the XML/RPC to the world is also equivalent to shooting yourself in the foot: OpenERP today is a relatively nice SOA oriented framework that you can connect to anything, where you can do by webservices everything you do in the user interface. This for instance a much better situation than they Magento where the WS layer is only a crappy addon layer and where most of the time you can just not do by WS what you would do in the UI. Even Openbravo copied that concept now, exposing all there CRUD services RESTfully (over Jersey I Believe; notice that unlike OpenERP, I believe they still miss 50% of the business logic at the WS layer, but not 100% sure). So having an open interoperable WS layer is a very strong point of OpenERP IMHO, so please don't kill that but let's make it more professional; not only the HTML layer! So yes, please do increase the user base of OpenERP. For that there is only one way: decrease the entry barrier for the integrators (existing or new ones) by making it more compliant with the well known and documented and robust standards. I think this is a high priority. Best regards. -- Raphaël Valyi Founder and consultant +55 21 3010 9965 www.akretion.com On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Nicolas Bessi <[email protected] > wrote: > Hello everybody. > > The webclient 6.1 is now quite on the rails and is really promising. > Although it seems that the webclient is still based on CherryPy. > I know it is a convenient way to lauch a HTTP server and it is great for > dev. > But in a professional configuration where webclient pages may be exposed to > the world this will not be sufficient enough. > > IMHO we should be able to launch at least server in socket mode with a > python framework like twisted python, but also we should be able to launch > the server as a mod python for Apache or nginx. > Such kind of integration will be really important in order to have all > static content serve by powerful engine, enable load balancing etc… > > What do think about that. > > Regards > > Nicolas > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > *Nicolas Bessi * > Senior ERP consultant > Business Solution technical director > > Camptocamp SA > PSE A > CH-1015 Lausanne > http://www.openerp.camptocamp.com > > Phone: +41 21 619 10 26 > Office: +41 21 619 10 10 > Fax : +41 21 619 10 00 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openerp-expert-framework > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openerp-expert-framework > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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