Derek Neighbors wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 18:59, Matt Alexander wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Carl Parrish wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>If you don't do a lot of programming I'm going to suggest OpenOffice for 
>>>the front end and mysql or SQLite for the backend. If you do a lot of 
>>>Programming I'm going to suggest XUL for the front end and MySQL or 
>>>PostgreSQL for the backend. Both solutions will work on both platforms. 
>>>The XUL solution will work on more than just those two and would proably 
>>>be easier to extend later. Remember to first check and see if there is 
>>>already an opensource solution out there. (perhaps you can just help 
>>>with one that is)
>>>      
>>>
>>I'm curious...  I know absolutely nothing about XUL, but I think it's what
>>Mozilla is written in?  Anywho, is it possible to write an app that would
>>run in Mozilla and store all the data in SQLite?  I do some web
>>development and when I want to locally install my app then it means
>>installing Perl or PHP, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQLite, installing
>>Perl modules, configuring Apache, configuring the db, etc., etc., etc.
>>
>>It would be sweet if I could simply use Mozilla for the framework of my
>>program along with maybe Javascript, HTML, and SQLite, and not worry about
>>a web server at all.  I could then give someone my program and it would be
>>relatively easy to get running on almost any platform.  Possible?
>>    
>>
>
>Look at GNU Enterprise forms.  It does what you want today.  It can use
>SQL Lite or a number of other databases.  You can do complex things with
>Python (instead of Java Script).  It is highly portable and XML just
>like XUL.
>
>It is too late and I am too tired to fully explain.  Just check it out
>for yourself. :)
>  
>
I really am going to have to take the time to check out GNU Enterprise 
one day. I'm not able to suggest which would be better between GNUe and 
Mozilla but I can tell you that XUL can connect to any ODBC supported 
database (working on JDBC) and that you can use Python, Perl, and Ruby 
(though to be honest I was disappointed in how much you can't do in Ruby 
not sure where the others stand right now). There is currently a push 
from the GNOME group to allow Mono with XPCOM (I'm not really a 
supporter but I think with the kind of money and attention they are 
giving it it'll happen). Mozilla is a great cross platform platform 
today. Its still building of course. I would encourage anyone interested 
to check out "Rapid Application Development with Mozilla" The entire 
book is available for free at http://www.informit.com/title/0131423436. 
Also "Creating Applications with Mozilla" is available at mozdev. Though 
they don't seem to be up to speed on the status of the db_conn or svg.

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