-----Original Message----- From: Tres Seaver [mailto:tseaver@palladion.com] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 12:08 PM To: zope@zope.org Cc: Jody Winston Subject: Re: [Zope] Rich client side questions

Suppose you write IDL for the "rich" interactions, and use Fnorb or ILU to build a server which implements those interactions using ZPublisher.Client; the client side would then be a CORBA-enabled Java applet. Would that fit your model? I have been considering a similar idea, at least in part to allow some of the "rich editing" that the WYSIWIG thread has been discussing.

It should be straightforward enough (although not a trivial effort) to extend ZPublisher to understand CORBA just like it understands HTTP and FTP, WebDAV and XML-RPC. In fact, the ORBish concepts in ZPublisher would map rather nicely to CORBA.

o Any other ideas besides Java to do the client side work?

Too many possibilities to list.

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o If, I'm stuck using Java should I add a protocol such as NTTP-NG to Zope?

If you're going to bother adding a protocol, you might as well add CORBA since there are existing python tools.

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o How well does Zope without Apache serve up applets?

They're just files right? Should work the same as apache. -Michel