Re: How to create a stand-alone clone?
Re: How to create a stand-alone clone?
- Subject: Re: How to create a stand-alone clone?
- From: Nicolas Daum <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 23:22:38 +0100
Thanks for the advice, Chris
Chris Hanson wrote:
On Dec 7, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Nicolas Daum wrote:
My project is different: it will include some rather sophisticated
designing tools on the client side because it has to do with project
creation. Therefore I doubt it can be implemented as web pages.
Implement your client/server application to do everything locally, and
to use Web Services to communicate with the WebObjects-based server
application.
WebObjects is not 4D. WebObjects is a much higher-end application
server. But it's an *application server* -- it fills one role very,
very well.
I'd use Cocoa and Mac OS X on the client side. Or, if my clients were
running Windows, .NET and Windows Forms via either C# or Visual Basic
.NET (probably the former).
That will be too much to learn at a time for me. I'd rather stay with
one technology and be able to make it work.
For sure, but this is not a major issue, there are plenty of
solutions. There may be already tools for this purpose in WO. This is
rather trivial.
Synchronization of data from several disconnected sources is not a
trivial problem.
Well, it depends. In the context I am thinking about I think it's not a
big deal.
How would you design an app, let's say for salespersons:
* if disconnected as a C/S application (if feasible);
* or as Web server + browser if this allows the kind of GUI needed;
* manage a remote connection whatever, this is probably doable in
most cases.
I'd do it using Extreme Programming
<http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/whatisxp.htm> or a methodology
derived from it, building what my client needs most first and using
the most appropriate technologies for each individual component. I
wouldn't try to plan out everything in advance and I wouldn't try and
find a one-size-fits-all solution.
The more I think about it the more I am inclined to look for a remote
connection. There are too many issues with stand-alone apps.
Cheers
Nick
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