Re: [Gnumed-devel] web client via pyjamas

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 18:06:51 schrieb Sebastian Hilbert:
> Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 15:37:24 schrieb Gour:
> > Hello!
> >
> > The idea of having web client for GNUmed was discussed several times in
> > the past, but while thinking how to make adoption of GNUmed easier the
> > idea of having 'client' written in Pyjamas has come into my mind. (for
> > V2.0 maybe ;) )
> >
> > Anyone has any experience with it?
> >
> > It looks cool - some links - developing in 'desktop-like style (similar
> > to pygtk/pyqt/pywx) and running on both desktop and in the browser.
> >
> > http://pyjs.org/features.html
> > http://pyjs.org/book/output/Bookreader.html#Introduction
> >
> > Any comment?
>
> Note that I have little knowledge on the various toolkits but from the link
> you provide it looks like if anyone feels home at python but not at
> javascipt has a toolkit here to develop an UI as an wxpython alternative.
>
> Two humble questions.
> How does this compare to tubogears or django which is python as well ?
> Is database access possible through psycopg ?
>
> So my question really amounts to how much code can be reused from the
> middleware or is pyjamas the option to only rewrite the frontend code and
> reusing large parts of the GNUmed middleware ?
>
I have read through some of their documentation an it seems like pyjamas could 
be the develop once, deploy anywhere toolkit.

In the past I was looking for something like a wxwidgets-to-webapp (insert 
your toolkit here) wrapper , or a qt-to webapp wrapper. There are some efforts 
to bridge the gap between the desktop and the web but most are just starting.

On the other hand the web has started to go for the desktop. Ajax and co have 
started to immitate desktop applications.

Mozialla and google are starting to work on solutions where you write a webapp 
and have them running like desktop apps (invisible to the user). Technologies 
like Adobe Air and so on are appearing.

Having said that it seems that pyjamas is the first FOSS effort to make apps 
written in python run in the browser and the desktop off the same codebase.

Sebastian