[Zope] Vote for Windowing Toolkit to use for Fat Client

[Phil Harris]

As an addition to my previous post about jabber, someone on the
Jabber-Python list is building a jabber server in Python, which it seems
might  become the reference implementation rather than the C version, *very
interesting*.

Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
To: "Alastair Burt" <burt@dfki.de>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Vote for Windowing Toolkit to use for Fat Client


> 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
>
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