[Zope3-Users] Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3 lacks Ajax capability?

Jim Washington jwashin at vt.edu
Tue May 16 08:05:49 EDT 2006


:: moved to zope3-users

Jeff Rush wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> Jeff Rush wrote:
>>
>> what does your code actually do ?
>
> Provide a chat window at the bottom of a page, in which a student
> interacts with a teaching app and members of his team.  In the upper
> portion of the page, the teaching app alternately presents proficency
> questionaires and lessons.
>
> My idea was to construct a Zope widget component that can be dropped
> over, using widget= in ZCML, a TextArea/Lines Zope widget and
> transform it into an async typing window into a chat space.

You might consider using jsonserver (JSON-RPC) for the ajax-y
communication.  Soon, JSON-RPC (1.1-specification) will have native
support for keyword (named) parameters, which provides a python-ish feel
for the javascript calls.

I have a public example (not open-sourced, sorry - line-of-business app)
of jsonserver in action at http://www1.vtdata.org . It's fast and does
the async communication with little fuss.

jsonserver is available at http://zif.hill-street.net/jsonserver

-Jim Washington


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