Op dinsdag 03-03-2009 om 12:30 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Prince Riley: > Primarily the reason why is -- especially for DB web applications -- > is efficiency, maintainability, and scalability. The recent major > efforts by Mozilla, Google, and others to improve the performance of > browser Javascript engines is due to their experience designing, > writing and running CGI based web applications. There is quite a bit > of literature and discussion on the web explaining why they are using > REST versus CGI (Request/Response) which you might find helpful in > making your design choices.
All those parties have a interest in trying to get as much as people using web-aplications. But the key point in this is that people forget that javascript-programs are not meant to replace a full-blown desktopapplication. What they say, in fact, is that building web-applications on the server side isn't a good idea. (They promoted it for years, and finally they have come to the insight that it doesn't work) So now they suggest to build a client-side web-application. But the question they forget is: why would you want a web-application in that case anyway?!?! Use a db-server and a desktop-application and all your problems are gone... It's all so narrow-minded. If you have as a rule "thou shall develop web-based" all these things become important. Web-based applications are usefull when you have users who only use your website now and then. In that case it does't matter much if one session takes some time on the server - unless you are google, offcourse. (But also large community-sites now are releasing desktop-clients) If users use the application constantly, don't use a web-application. So the things explained in this document from IBM is usefull for very large systems which a lot of users (Like Amazon, but they also don't like the idea of a full-blown javascript application) or some idiots who do things in a web-application while they shoudn't. Joost. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
