Alastair Burt wrote:
Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> writes:
A couple of us here at NIP are playing around with building a fat client for Zope
What is a fat client?
The opposite of a thin client ;-) Thin clients have no business logic happening at their end of the connection. Fat client 'do more cool stuff', as it were. Think the Lotus Notes client, as opposed to a web browser...
On a related note (I think?), how hard would it be to build a Groove-like system with ZEO?
Wow, now there's an interesting thought :-)
I have never used Groove, but it sounds like a useful groupware tool for everyman. If the basis of Groove is incremental synchronisation of shared databases, then ZEO seems to offer similar functionality, especially if it encrypted the synchronisation protocol, which is what you, Chris, mentioned doing in a previous post.
Yup, if someone could make this spin work, I'd be overjoyed. However, I think this would need some big changes at the ZODB level, so I'm not in a position to state this as a possible aim ;-) Maybe version 2? cheers, Chris