Re: [Freesql-discuss] Ping?

[Gordan B. <go...@bo...>]

On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 10:41 am, Clark Freifeld wrote:
> I'm here.
>
> I think the project is in sleep mode, waiting for the heroes of old to
> return and reclaim their rightful place on the throne.

Well, that's one other person, at least. :-)

I don't suppose you are familliar with the innards of the FreeSQL source =
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I'm assesing it's concept for one of my projects, but I am concerned abou=
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potential performance issues, indexing and table joins.

What I am essentially trying to do is design a distributed client-server=20
architecture. The applications would be written in JavaScript, and would =
run=20
as much as possible in the client browser (full DOM compliance required).=
 It=20
would make the web browser itself an application platform. Obviously, thi=
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would not be suitable for all applications, but for most office type use=20
(word processing, email), it would be perfectly adequate. I have the=20
development of this under way already.

Obviously, there is a problem - there is no way to store or access data o=
n the=20
local machine through JavaScript. The solution I am working with at the=20
moment is XML-RPC calls to the server "half" of the system, which would a=
llow=20
for operations that cannot be performed on the client. This can be somewh=
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limited at times, though, as the user is locked into using the services o=
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someone running the server. What I am trying to do is use FreeNet as the =
data=20
storage medium. This would mean that the user could securely use the=20
applications through public FreeNet nodes, without needing to use the ser=
ver=20
half of the system.

Obviously, a proper server is still useful for some tasks, but the idea o=
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using FreeNet is looking very attractive at the moment. What is required =
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this to happen is a fully JavaScript implementation of FreeSQL that would=
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provide an API for using FreeSQL on a public FreeNet node as an SQL datab=
ase=20
server.

Any comments/ideas/suggestions?

I am not afraid of doing the implementation of this myself, but some inpu=
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from other people while I'm looking through the FreeSQL source code would=
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appreciated.

Regards.

Gordan