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Re: [OFBiz] Users - Presentation Layer [Re: would like to changethe, contentmanagementcomponent of OfBiz]

Posted by Oliver Lietz-2 on Sep 04, 2005; 11:02am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/OFBiz-Users-Re-would-like-to-changethe-contentmanagementcomponent-of-OfBiz-tp135774p135778.html

Am Sonntag, 4. September 2005 02:23 schrieb Jacques Le Roux:
[...]
> >The problem with this is. The Lazslo Presentation Server on Windows XP
> >running on a Intel PIV 2.2Ghz with 256 MB DDR RAM takes around 8-10 mins
> > to start and around 15 mins to actually deliver the first page. Also
> > whenever you veisit a page for the first time there is a overhead of
> > about 3 mins.

The "performance" is indeed bad. 256 MB RAM is surely not enough for a J2EE
application like OpenLaszlo and Windows. I have a very good performance
experience with Flex on PowerPC G4 1,2GHz with 1280 MB RAM (development
machine, not yet in production).

> Your explanations are very welcome : you are the first on this ML reporting
> real use of Lazslo and this reinforces some of my "a priori" against Lazslo
> and pro Ajax. Althougth (and specialy for this type of think) 256MB on XP
> is certainly a bit short. Quickness is the main but not the only reason :
>
> . As you said "it generates Flash O/P which can be only veiwed
>   with the Flash plugin."

That does not have to be a disadvantage. Flash is more cross-browser than AJAX
and AJAX is more cross-platform than Flash. Safari and Konqueror can't render
most of the demos of openrico.org. This cross-browser vs. cross-platform
ratio might change in future because of ongoing efforts to develop an open
source Flash player. The cross-browser DHTML stuff is fragile and I can't see
that it will change in future.

> . And Flash is proprietary so : specifications might change, or even Flash
>   might disappear (don't laugh, who remembers the Eighties PC DB "standard"
>   DBase III ? There are so much examples...)

but SWF is not closed, see http://www.osflash.org and
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/05/24/swf_not_flash.html.

> . Flash is not read by non graphic navigators (for blinds, by example) and
>   *worst* by crawlers

You can use Flash's accessibility features:
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/features/flex/overview.html

And you normally don't need crawles accessing your web applications (not web
sites), but you can of course add other interfaces like HTML, WML, SOAP or
XML-RPC to your applications.

> . And finally, Flash is really not a W3c standard (as opposed to  CSS and
>   XHTML -  of course XML - and even *ECMAScript* and DOM)

Not, it's not yet. Let's see what happens after Adobe has aquired Macromedia.
Maybe Flash/SWF becomes a standard like PDF or PS.

> At this point I try to resume all the links we have got on this subject :
>
> Some  Rich Web Application Development Tool
> (7 of them) http://mytechrantings.blogspot.com +
> http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net/
>
> Java Rich Internet Applications
> http://www.canoo.com/ulc/
> They also use Jira :o)
> see on : http://webtest.canoo.com/manual/WebTestHome.html
>
> A good Ajax demo (Rico) http://openrico.org/rico/demos.page
>
> Rico is based upon : http://prototype.conio.net/
>
> I will make a page in the Wiki about all that, did I forgot something ?

Maybe you find something useful on my list of RIA and RIA related
technologies:

Flash (SWF):
------------------------------------------------------------
Macromedia Flash
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/

Macromedia Flex
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/

Macromedia Central
http://www.macromedia.com/software/central/

OpenLaszlo
http://www.openlaszlo.org

Snapp MX
http://www.snappmx.com
------------------------------------------------------------

Java:
------------------------------------------------------------
Applets
http://java.sun.com/applets/

ULC (UltraLightClient)
http://www.canoo.com/ulc/

Casabac GUI Server (SWT)
http://www.casabac.com
------------------------------------------------------------

XML/PDF:
------------------------------------------------------------
XDP (Adobe XML Data Package), Adobe LiveCycle Designer
http://www.adobe.com/products/server/adobedesigner/
------------------------------------------------------------

DHTML (HTML, JS, CSS):
------------------------------------------------------------
Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML)
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

Casabac GUI Server (HTML)
http://www.casabac.com

NextApp Echo
http://www.nextapp.com/products/echo/

DWR - Direct Web Remoting
http://www.getahead.ltd.uk/dwr/
------------------------------------------------------------

other:
------------------------------------------------------------
Bindows
http://www.bindows.net
------------------------------------------------------------

related:
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XUL (XML User Interface Language)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/

XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnintlong/html/longhornch03.asp

UIML (User Interface Markup Language)
http://www.uiml.org

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

Java Web Start
http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/

SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit)
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/
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Oliver




 
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