On Apr 20, 2006, at 10:42 AM, Kevin Windham wrote:
On Apr 20, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Joseph wrote:
Could I do stuff like this with Arbee?
http://www.laszlosystems.com/lps/laszlo-in-ten-minutes/
Not directly. It looks like laszlo is using flash to do a lot of
the work for them on the browser side. While very neat, I doubt
that there are a ton of flash based business apps out there. I
could be wrong though. I didn't read enough to know what laszlo
looks like on the backend, but that may be less attractive than RB.
Either way, I am not suggesting you should use RB necessarily, just
thought you might want to have a look at what's possible with
relative ease.
FWIW, Laszlo and Arbee inhabit entirely different dimensions of this
question.
Laszlo is for doing a graphical user interface in the user's browser
(ie for building a client). Arbee is for building an HTTP server. It
would work very well to use the two together.
I've done a little work with Laszlo. It's a very powerful system. It
also makes it easier to do things based on XML than anything I've
ever seen.
So Laszlo compliments very nicely a RESTful architecture (look it up
in wikipedia): make your back-end present itself as XML documents
available via HTTP, and have your front end work with that. You could
do a very nice architecture for presenting your data model as XML
from RB, and then do a super-slick UI in Laszlo.
In fact, I'd love to develop something like that, if you're looking
for help.
Guyren G Howe
guyren-at-relevantlogic.com
http://relevantlogic.com
REALbasic, PHP, Python programming
PostgreSQL, MySQL database design and consulting
Technical writing and training
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