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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