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List:       opengroupware-evolution
Subject:    Re: Wombat Re: [OGo-Evolution] OGo Connector
From:       Jens Reimann <ctron () dentrassi ! de>
Date:       2003-08-08 7:02:29
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On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 16:49, Adam Williams wrote:

> 
> >> We (me & my customers - lawyers, doctors offices, churches mostly) are 
> >> really interested in task & project management.  I can do Glade, CORBA, 
> >> and C/C++.  I'll just finally have to get around to actually learning 
> >> Bonobo (I've started a couple of times but they kept switching it around; 
> >> gnorba, ior in X properties, etc... then it all changed).
> >Well, another option is to write a new application for that. Eg 
> >Mozilla/XUL is a pretty good platform for getting something up and 
> >running very quickly.
> 
> I don't know anything about XUL,  I'll google that.

In my company we are currently doing a project where Mozilla+XUL is
heavily used as a database front end for end users.

XUL is _very_ good!! But it also has some drawbacks.

You are somewhat limited to the JavaScript engine of Mozilla which could
be better than it currently is. So some things get really tricky (at
least when it comes to local/remote/signed security stuff).


> 
> >option. Mozilla also has all the interesting HTTP and XML-RPC 
> >communication built in, so it's more or less a matter of writing some 
> >XUL+JavaScript code to access ZideStore or the XML-RPC daemon.
> 
> I've written XML-RPC systems,  but never used XUL or Javascript.  Most 
> of my coding has been in the integreation of backend systems: databases, 
> LDAP servers, pricing engines, notification dispatch, etc...  really 
> boring stuff. 
> 
> It seems on Ogo-Users that a preference for ZideStore over XML-RPC has 
> been expressed by various people.  At least as far as future extension 
> are concerned.  Do you think that is correct?
> 
> >An Evolution which can use *all* the nice OGo features would certainly 
> >be very cool, but this is a looong way to go and would require a lot of 
> >GNOME UI development.
> 
> That is becoming apparent.  Even using the addres book will still be so 
> very handy
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