[Laszlo-dev] How can we make Laszlo-Java integration easier

[Max Carlson]

This is very cool!

I've been wanting to update the laszlo-rails client code for a while now 
to keep a dataset in sync with a server-side model automatically.  When 
the dataset value is changed, the corresponding object on the server 
should be automatically updated.  Paging for large datasets was also 
supported.  Both of these are very useful for tabular data, but they 
currently require XML data - because datasets do.  JSON isn't as useful 
in many cases because there's no way to do replication and receive 
change events in Laszlo - but it's certainly lighter-weight, and 
partially solves the typing problem that XML data requires a schema for...

In any case, the client/server protocol should use XML or JSON so it can 
be implemented for other server-side languages.

Quirino Zagarese wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been a Laszlo user for more than 3 years and, as you maybe know, I 
> manage the Italian community.
> In my development experience I always missed a powerful tool to 
> integrate OL apps with Java back-ends.
> This need made me create my own tool that I published as a googlecode 
> project.
> You can see it as an alternative to OL java-rpc, but I think it can be 
> also seen as a start line to make OL users' life easier.
> My question is: which features should such a tool provide to be really 
> useful and can it be a good way to make OL adoption wider? This is my 
> way to contribute to OL according to Tucker's manifesto 
> <http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?t=12997>.
> Bests,
> 
> Quirino
> 
> 
> -- 
> Quirino Zagarese
> 
> Italian OpenLaszlo Community  - www.laszloitalia.org 
> <http://www.laszloitalia.org>
> 
> EU4RIA: Laszlo+Java, easily - eu4ria.googlecode.com 
> <http://eu4ria.googlecode.com>

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Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org