Well, I definitely agree that it seems quite a bit over the top in terms of effort just to get data to the back-end. The js / qooxdoo side is nearly verbatim from some example I found on the net. All I did was modify it a little with try/catch blocks and added some debug messages to see what was happening.
The back-end is about as plain-jane RPC as you can get. I've got two servers I've written, one in Perl, the other in PHP which toss RPC pretty generically. I think I wrote them some months back when I was testing various JS / Ajax frameworks. They've just always worked with very little tinkering. I wrote another one out of CPAN parts more recently that's even more generic-- JSON::RPC::Dispatcher. (shrug) :-) All my own JS code in the past has been trivial. This really seemed.. not sure how to even describe it-- somewhere between frustrating and absurd! :-) Had even been considering ditching Qooxdoo for something else. The documentation for the thing seems to alternate between pretty good and just-barely. I spend a lot of my time just trying to figure out what they're doing in places or compensating for something that doesn't seem to be there. I realize that it's an evolving effort. And I'm not meaning to knock anybody's efforts in any way-- you know, I'm pretty happy and thrilled at having a cool, open source toolkit to work with. But its a lot different than many of the GUI paradigms I've used in the past with other languages, I can certainly say that! Anyway-- if you know of an easier way-- heh, I'm all ears!! I'd love to look at some "well-built" Qooxdoo apps for style and best-practice tips & pointers. I'm just kind of feeling my way along trying to get a feel for it. John -- View this message in context: http://qooxdoo.678.n2.nabble.com/Need-help-with-Models-please-tp7581630p7581660.html Sent from the qooxdoo mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
