Hi Drew, > [Pinneberg and Renaissance] > ... > What Base look like, how would it function, if the focus moved from > Client/Server as it is today to web based? > > Would the embedded forms become XForms? > > Would the embedded database engine become a very simple application server?
Don't know for sure, in parts, kind of. Hmm, perhaps not really satisfying, those answers ;-) In my opinion, Base should position itself as platform for developing data-driven applications. This applies to the current "desktop version" of OOo and Base, and would also apply to a possible "online version". In the second case, Base might be completely different from what we know today. "Base" as such might not even be there anymore. For example, NetBeans today already allows you developing database-driven applications. If there's no difference between online and offline anymore, then instead of moving Base into the Web's direction, it might well be worth moving NetBeans into the Desktop's direction ... Whatever such a Base would look like, using standards (as XForms) is certainly a must. Moving Base into the web domain, but bringing with us own non-standard functionality where there exist equivalent standards sounds foolish to me. The "in parts" is owed to the fact that XForms as such does not allow everything OOo forms allow. Though, nobody says a WebOffice (immediately) needs to have all the features the DesktopOffice has ... A little more satisfying? Hopefully :-\ Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
