Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-04 Thread Vincent Snijders
Prince Riley schreef: Wasn't this thread supposed to be continued on fpc-other? If you are ignorant: http://www.hu.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other/ Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepa

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-04 Thread Prince Riley
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Dariusz Mazur wrote: > Prince Riley pisze: > >> Since the discussion in this thread has advanced pretty far along toward >> recommending a FP and Powtils solution to you, then it appears you have a >> technical answer from the group you can explore. >> >> However,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-04 Thread Prince Riley
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Prince Riley wrote: > > > Joost > > > > Reading the responses on this discussion thread, it appears the > 'religious > > war' you mentioned in your prior post was unavoidable. > > > > Not to add any fuel to the wa

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-04 Thread Dariusz Mazur
Michael Van Canneyt pisze: On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Dariusz Mazur wrote: I've heard all this before since 10 years, and it is only true for small applets used by a broad public. For large applications (1500+ windows) that stay open virtually all day and are used by a specialized public, the bene

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Dariusz Mazur wrote: > > > I've heard all this before since 10 years, and it is only true for small > > applets used by a broad public. > > > > For large applications (1500+ windows) that stay open virtually all day > > and are used by a specialized public, the benefits of w

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-04 Thread Dariusz Mazur
Prince Riley pisze: Since the discussion in this thread has advanced pretty far along toward recommending a FP and Powtils solution to you, then it appears you have a technical answer from the group you can explore. However, without suggesting there is a bias in favor of a specific client-cen

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-04 Thread Dariusz Mazur
I've heard all this before since 10 years, and it is only true for small applets used by a broad public. For large applications (1500+ windows) that stay open virtually all day and are used by a specialized public, the benefits of web-based are zero, and are even contraproductive. I've made t

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-04 Thread Adrian Veith
Hello Francisco, I use the following for my applications: - synapse with visualsynapse ( I modified visualsynapse to perform Keep-Alive http connections) - HaXe/Neko for remoting (www.haxe.org) - very easy to use ! same language for client/ server/ flash I have created a pascal framework for emb

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-04 Thread Jonas Maebe
Joost van der Sluis wrote on wo, 04 mrt 2009: Now imagine that all efforts that has been put in developing ajax-like technologies were put in building a good web-based distribution system. something like: "click here to run this program on your desktop" and then build a safe environment on the d

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-04 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op dinsdag 03-03-2009 om 14:50 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Andrew Brunner: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > > > > 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 > >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-04 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op dinsdag 03-03-2009 om 16:17 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Prince Riley: > Reading the responses on this discussion thread, it appears the > 'religious war' you mentioned in your prior post was unavoidable. Tha wasn't my comment. But now I realise that it was me that started this... What have I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Bee wrote: > > Web apps: by all means, but not for every possible scenario... > > Exactly! I believe all web app developers realize that web-based app > is never meant to do *every* scenarios. But, there are some cases > which web app suit the scenario very well, in some cas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-04 Thread Bee
> Well, drop by and I'll prove to you - hands down - that what our clients need > simply cannot be done by web applications, because they cannot interact with > the local desktop. Can your web-app burn a CD-ROM ? Does it have access to > a smartcard reader ? Can it start and control MS-Word ? Can y

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Bee wrote: > > Yes, and they are nearly all slow, cumbersome and unresponsive. They are > > typical of companies that say "this is easier for me. I don't care whether > > you like using it or not, you are going to have to use it if you want to > > deal with us, and anyway eve

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Prince Riley wrote: > Joost > > Reading the responses on this discussion thread, it appears the 'religious > war' you mentioned in your prior post was unavoidable. > > Not to add any fuel to the warring opinions I'd like answer a comment you > made in response to my respon

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Bee
> Yes, and they are nearly all slow, cumbersome and unresponsive. They are > typical of companies that say "this is easier for me. I don't care whether > you like using it or not, you are going to have to use it if you want to > deal with us, and anyway everyone else has web apps that are just as b

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread John & Marg Sunderland
Bee wrote: I've heard all this before since 10 years, and it is only true for small applets used by a broad public. 10 years ago, people was just talking about it. Today, they're doing it. C'mon, look around, there are thousands of complex applications provided on the web. No

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Bee
> Again, not a major issue, since testing needs done on all the given > platforms anyhow, but I just liked the write once, run anywhere approach. If you really need that, despite you said it's not a major issue, then you should consider other solutions. FPC is simply not for the purpose. FPC is ab

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Bee
> I've heard all this before since 10 years, and it is only true for small > applets used by a broad public. 10 years ago, people was just talking about it. Today, they're doing it. C'mon, look around, there are thousands of complex applications provided on the web. Not to mention, web-based appli

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Bee
I used to be on your side a few years ago, Joost. But now I can fully understand why many people start to migrating to web based applications. Especially when your application is used round across the globe or across the nation. > But the key point in this is that people forget that javascript-pro

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Travis Siegel
But what irie pascal offers is the ability to compile my code once, then execute it on any of the supported platforms. Fpc can't do that. It's really a matter of preference, I know, but it's kind of a moot point, since Stewart King has clearly stated there is no intent to support osx, and si

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Prince Riley
Joost Reading the responses on this discussion thread, it appears the 'religious war' you mentioned in your prior post was unavoidable. Not to add any fuel to the warring opinions I'd like answer a comment you made in response to my response. The recent push to make web applications (not simply

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Andrew Brunner
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > To prove my point I once did performance tests with AJAX, SOAP and whatnot > technologies when compared to a specialized C/S protocol. In general the > conclusion was that SOAP and standards-based applications worked 6 times > slower. A

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Andrew Brunner wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > > > > 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 use

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Andrew Brunner
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Joost van der Sluis wrote: > > 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

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Joost van der Sluis
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 Jav

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Prince Riley
One further point in this thread ... As a starting point in your thinking thru the design choices, here is a fairly complete but accessible article on the topic you might find helpful http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/wa-ajaxarch/index.html On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Prince R

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Prince Riley
Since the discussion in this thread has advanced pretty far along toward recommending a FP and Powtils solution to you, then it appears you have a technical answer from the group you can explore. However, without suggesting there is a bias in favor of a specific client-centric vs server-centric we

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op maandag 02-03-2009 om 16:20 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Francisco Reyes: > Marco van de Voort writes: > > > Sorry, old name, nowadays it is fcl-web. See packages/ > > Don't see it at > http://www.freepascal.org/packages > > Is there where I should look? It's part of the fcl, in Lazarus you

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Andreas Berger wrote: > I'm interested to know why no one mentioned powtils yet (other than the > original poster). I might be a bit late, but I just gave some comments on Powtils. :-) > I also am looking into writing a fairly complex CGI > program and powtils see

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Any recommendations on which library to use to create web enabled FPC apps? We have 4 applications in our company based on FPC + Powtils to generate standard CGI apps and so far it's working very well. Powtils also has some nice features li

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Bee
> > Not fpc related, but irie pascal (http://www.irietools.com) has a pascal > that is cross platform, and does handle web support quite well. It's more or less similar to Powtils. I don't see any good reasons to use it while there are many CGI units available for FPC. Using Powtils, you don't ne

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Bee
> > So far I found > embeddable webserver > http://www.eilers.net/pascal > Site doesn't have much info Never use custom embedded web server though it's not hard to build one. > Synapse > http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/doku.php > Seems very low level. It looks more a TCP/IP suite classes to me.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Andreas Berger
I'm interested to know why no one mentioned powtils yet (other than the original poster). I also am looking into writing a fairly complex CGI program and powtils seems very promising. And comments? Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Francisco Reyes said: Marco van de Voort

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Francisco Reyes said: > Marco van de Voort writes: > > > Sorry, old name, nowadays it is fcl-web. See packages/ > > Don't see it at > http://www.freepascal.org/packages > Is there where I should look? In the source. ___ fpc-

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marco van de Voort writes: Sorry, old name, nowadays it is fcl-web. See packages/ Don't see it at http://www.freepascal.org/packages Is there where I should look? ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.or

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Prince Riley writes: Finally, give the advance from CGI based web apps to Web 2.0 (Javascript running in the browser) is there a design rational for running code on the server instead of in the web browser. I think that is almost a religious war type of discussion... Short answer (as it appli

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Travis Siegel writes: Not fpc related, but irie pascal (http://www.irietools.com) has a pascal that is cross platform, and does handle web support quite well. No Postgresql support listed... still seems pretty interesting. ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Mark Emerson said: > What is fpweb? Sorry, old name, nowadays it is fcl-web. See packages/ ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Mark Emerson
What is fpweb? On Monday 02 March 2009 12:37:36 pm Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Travis Siegel said: > > Fpc is cross platform I know, but as far as I know, it's not optomized > > for cgi execution like irie pascal is. > > Interesting. Could you share your evaluation/compari

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Travis Siegel said: > Fpc is cross platform I know, but as far as I know, it's not optomized > for cgi execution like irie pascal is. Interesting. Could you share your evaluation/comparison details? Maybe the people working on fpweb could learn something from it. __

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Prince Riley
Travis, I am joining this discussion fairly late so if you've found your solution already please ignore this post. First, upon reading you feel Irie Pascal is 'optimized' for CGI execution on OSX (Leopard?) my first question is how are you defining that. I've looked over the Irie code just now (u

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Travis Siegel
Not fpc related, but irie pascal (http://www.irietools.com) has a pascal that is cross platform, and does handle web support quite well. My attempts to get him to support osx has fallen flat, but dos, windows, bsd, solaris (I think) and other distributions are supported, so it may do what you

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Francisco Reyes said: > > It was based on the eliza example iirc. > > URL/source? http://www.indyproject.org there is stuff about indy in the wiki too. > Is the easiest way to go using FPC + apache with CGI? Depends. For me that was not the easiest way, since the web p

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marco van de Voort writes: It was based on the eliza example iirc. URL/source? Is the easiest way to go using FPC + apache with CGI? ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Creating FPC enabled websites

2009-03-02 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Francisco Reyes said: > Have found a few libraries and wonder if anyone has had good success with > any of these or otheres. In the past I've had an Indy9 httpserver + ssl running. That was under Delphi, but parts of that I also had running (with indy10) under FreeBSD/32-