[Laszlo-user] Perl Catalyst

[John Sundman]

Hello Matt,

Firstly, you are correct that the documentation that you reference is  
obsolete.  It predates OL4!  I don't know how it remains on the  
openlaszlo.org site, but I have filed at JIRA task to have it taken  
down ASAP, as it's needlessly confusing.  As the doc guy at  
openlaszlo, I apologize for your goose chase.  Please see instead the  
most recent version of this chapter:

http://labs.openlaszlo.org/legals-nightly/docs/guide/architecture.html

Second, as of 4.0.2 the XML-RPC APIs now work in both DHTML and SWF  
runtimes in SOLO mode -- no LPS required.

Third, that Guestblox application is ancient and its code has not  
been updated in at least two years.  It's probably not a good point  
of reference except in the very general sense.  You are correct that  
the documentation is not especially helpful in explaining how to  
construct a RESTful OpenLaszlo application.  We have been working on  
an example application with supporting documentation and hope to post  
it to OpenLaszlo.org very soon -- hopefully, before next week is  
out.  I think this will go a long way towards answering your general  
questions.

Finally, there is some (very spare) documenation of the LPS server  
interface on the OpenLaszlo Wiki:

http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/LPS_server_API

Our goal is to (eventually) provide sufficient documentation such  
that interested third parties could implement the LPS in languages  
other than Java.

I hope this helps,

jrs



On May 29, 2007, at 12:04 AM, Matt Rosin wrote:

> Thank you, especially Patricio and Geoff for your help.
>
> Yes, my concern about functionality lacking in SOLO deployment  
> mode. So now I can use XMLRPC/SOAP and get anything important  
> directly from the SOLO binary without needing the LPS? Then I  
> suppose this page is outdated.
> http://www.openlaszlo.org/lps/docs/guide/architecture.html
>
> Patricio do you think you might like to share your experience with  
> Perl and OpenLaszlo? You (or I) could mention it on perlmonks.org.  
> I have not been able to find a single example of Perl and  
> OpenLaszlo yet, and a Catalyst example would be great.
>
> I still don't really know what functionality is going to be missing  
> if I use Catalyst plus a Flash binary. If you can point me to  
> documentation on this I'd appreciate it. What I really want is a  
> Catalyst version of the LPS I think! I just deployed a FastCGI/ 
> Catalyst app that is quite satisfying.
>
> I'll check out OpenLaszlo again. Thanks!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Matt
>
>
>
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