Re: RPG, open source, and the web

No, of course not, Henrik. That's the equivalent of a thick client, and I don't have an application that needs anything like it. Which is good, because I suspect that the UI on that page represents many man-months (if not man-years) of total development.

No, I'm talking about the standard interface required for traditional business applications ranging from simple maintenance to web commerce. I can knock together solid rich UI clients (sortable tables, maintainable grids and the like ) in a matter of days, or even hours. I suspect that your example takes a little longer than that, and requires quite a framework behind it. I can do mine using just the basic EGL tooling.

I'm glad I don't have to write a web-based version of Microsoft Project!

Joe

Joe,

so in EGL you just creates UI's like this by snapping your finger ?

http://ext-scheduler.com/examples/advanced/advanced.html




On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Joe Pluta<joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On 4/5/2011 2:51 PM, Henrik Rützou wrote:

The JSON data that populates the grid is here (only 25 rows)

go "commachasing ;-)

I'll take your word for it... thankfully, in EGL we don't worry about
that stuff. All I do is define the records and the widgets, and tie
them together using the field names in the EGL code. EGL does all the
work of transferring data between tiers. I never see a single line of
JSON or XML.

It's very much like using a display file as opposed to writing out the
5250 data stream by hand.

Joe
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