On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 13:15:12 +0530 Jins Thomas <jinstho...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > Current requirement is like we are planning to build such an > application which should have > > 1. (Web) client gui which can connect to a database, run some > perl scripts at the back end, gives back the results in the gui > (results can be some tabular inputs, paragraphs, charts, > schematic diagrams etc.)
I would definitely recommend Django over something like web.py. Django is quite easy to get into in terms of basics, and you can explore further features as needed. With web.py, I would suspect that you would eventually end up writing your own framework. If you want to run Perl scripts, you could consider looking at Catalyst, a Perl web framework (never used it myself, but have heard many good things about it). > 2. It should have some drag and drop facility and connect the > objects to configure some rule sets, saveas options etc. Drag and drop should probably be a front-end task, say jQuery driven. Others can be done. > Basically there are some quite a bit debates happening whether it > should be a web gui, or a thick client (which connects to the > database). > > Would some body please advice when free on > > 1. Whether web.py itself is the good option for building this > kind of framework. > > 2 . How easy would it be to build such an application in python > (Currently i should rate my python skills to be almost beginner > level) > > 3. I was looking for some frameworks like vaadin in a python, > does anybody knows about such a framework. Not sure what vaadin is, but as mentioned above, I would go with Django. > 4. For all this frameworks, we need apache like webserver right. > I found web.py's independent sample webserver, Is it advisable to > use such a webserver to avoid other third party installations. You can run Django through Apache, or other web servers. > 5. What's your opinion on Web client vs Thick client for such an > application. If it's thick client, architects here are forcing > to use TCL/Tk to build. But my feel is it's lacking look and feel. [...] Ack! Tcl/Tk in this day and age? Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
