[Zope] Rich client side questions

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----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.

> >   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.

> >   o How well does Zope without Apache serve up applets?

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

-Michel