One thing I'm missing not only in Webware but also the more recent web frameworks and "mega frameworks" is an integrated reporting component. In most applications, you want to to create reports, lists, statistics, (serial) letters etc. in PDF (or RTF, Excel or whatever) format.
One possible solution is using ReportLab as explained here: http://wiki.w4py.org/pdf-creation-with-reportlab.html. However, this solution is not very sophisticated. Actually what you need to do is to fork a separate process for PDF creation, even if the generation is fast, because ReportLab is not threadsafe. This is also necessary when the report generation will take more than a few seconds. So it would be nice if Webware provided some helper functionality for forking PDF generation processes, storing, caching and removing reports for individual requests in the file system, notification when reports are ready, properly delivering reports to the web browser etc. Another thing I am missing is a html/xml library, i.e. a core support for generating html and xml code with Python. E.g., instead of self.writeln('<a href="http://xyz";>abc</a>') you should be able to write something like self.a('abc', href="http://xyz";) This will reduce the amount of typing, and automatically guarantee well-formedness (forgotten angle brackets etc.) I'm thinking of something similar to the htp/htf library that is part of Oracle's IAS (http://www.psoug.org/reference/htp.html), or maybe even simpler. Probably this has already been coded hundreds of time in Python (e.g. http://dustman.net/andy/python/HyperText/), and maybe there is something we are allowed to include into Webware, so it will always available as a core functionality (e.g. as a WebUtils module). I'd like to hear your thoughts about these issues. -- Christoph ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list Webware-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
