[OT - saddb, presentaion layer

[Bakki Kudva <ba...@navaco.com>]

I have two slightly offtopic questions.

1. I noticed that SAP -  "On October 5, 2000, at Linux World SAP DB was
announced to be made available as Open Source software using the GNU
General Public License for the database kernel and the GNU Lesser
General Public License for clients and programming interfaces." There is
even a DBD::SAP_DB. I was wondering if anyone has experience using sapdb
under modperl and would care to share your experiences with it. How does
it compare to Oracle?

2. Has any one worked on a javascript presentation layer to run under
modperl where one can create windows, menus, tree widgets etc (like
Perl/Tk). I know you can use javascript with CGI.pm but I am not sure if
this is the right place to create presentation layer.

thank you,

bakki
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Re: [OT - saddb, presentaion layer

[Bakki Kudva <ba...@navaco.com>]

Gunther Birznieks wrote:
 
> You may want to look at SmartWorker's (www.smartworker.org) widget
> generation technology. It's a bit obtuse (IMHO) but it's also pretty cool.
> They worked it up to create opendesk (www.opendesk.com) unfortunately, the
> cool lookandfeel of open desk and all the nice fancy dHTML virtual desktop
> technology is closed source. :(
> 
> But it is based on smartworker which is open source and based on mod_perl. :)

Thank you for that link! It's cool. I downloaded smartworker which seems
very much what I had in mind. It seems that opendesk.com-v1 is open
source too. I haven't seen the license yet. I got that as well. I am
going to play with this for a while and see how it works out.

PS: BTW your early CGI books were great and got me interested in Perl :)

best,
bakki
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Re: [OT - saddb, presentaion layer

[Gunther Birznieks <gu...@extropia.com>]

At 10:09 AM 11/2/00 -0500, Bakki Kudva wrote:
>I have two slightly offtopic questions.
>
>1. I noticed that SAP -  "On October 5, 2000, at Linux World SAP DB was
>announced to be made available as Open Source software using the GNU
>General Public License for the database kernel and the GNU Lesser
>General Public License for clients and programming interfaces." There is
>even a DBD::SAP_DB. I was wondering if anyone has experience using sapdb
>under modperl and would care to share your experiences with it. How does
>it compare to Oracle?
>
>2. Has any one worked on a javascript presentation layer to run under
>modperl where one can create windows, menus, tree widgets etc (like
>Perl/Tk). I know you can use javascript with CGI.pm but I am not sure if
>this is the right place to create presentation layer.

I don't know about your first question. Perhaps you should have broken this 
into two threads because I can see the replies getting complicated.

Anyway, for the 2nd question, you correctly realize that while CGI.pm is a 
library that can generate javascript tags it is not a library devoted to 
auto generation of javascript.

You may want to look at SmartWorker's (www.smartworker.org) widget 
generation technology. It's a bit obtuse (IMHO) but it's also pretty cool. 
They worked it up to create opendesk (www.opendesk.com) unfortunately, the 
cool lookandfeel of open desk and all the nice fancy dHTML virtual desktop 
technology is closed source. :(

But it is based on smartworker which is open source and based on mod_perl. :)

Later,
    Gunther