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

[P T Withington]

It seems that JSON is becoming pretty language-independent (http://json.org/ 
).  So maybe XML is less important.  Also, EcmaScript 5 will have  
native JSON import/export which is quite powerful.

On 2009-10-23, at 10:32, Max Carlson wrote:

> 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 
>> >
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Max Carlson
> OpenLaszlo.org