[Wabclient-user] RE: WABclient

[Andrej F. <an...@fa...>]

Hello Olaf,

> thanks for interest in one of my projects.
> There is a mailing list at sourceforge for this project.

[switching to the mailing list]

> If you want to pass useractions back to the server you can use the following
> methods:
> WABGlobal.URLGet(String url)
> WABGlobal.URLPost(String url, String msg)

Thanks, I'll try that. Will it work using https?

> Have a look at the following projects:
> WAB (WebApplicationBuilder), JBuilder extension to generate the serverpart
> (servlet)
> WABawt (Abstract Windoing Toolkit) (Windowing Library for servlet)

I did, thank you.

Few more questions:

1) What do you think about my idea to use WABclient as a thing client for our Aubit 4gl compiler? Is it possible? Is it
a good idea?

2) I was thinking to have a servlet between the WABclient and our 4gl applications, instead trying to make 4gl programs
communicate directly with the WABclient. This would have the additional benefit of servlet being able to start 4gl
programs on the server, when client connects, as well as to allow ussage of standard http/https ports even when web
server is installed on the same server, and use SSL provided by web server or Servlet engine. So this servlet would be
just a relay/proxy between 4gl programs (that would generate XML/JavaScript for the client) and the WABclient (that
would interpret XML/Javascript generated by the 4gl programs and return user input via WABGlobal.URLPost. What do you
think about this?

3) Do you possibly have an example of servlet code that I might use to adapt into a relay, as described in 2) ?

4) Do you maybe have an code example that creates a simple form with few text fields, few menu items, maybe a drop-down
list or radio buttons, that collects the input and returns it to the server side? Something like this:

http://www.querix.com/chimera/chimera.html

or

http://new.4js.com/fourjs/site/html/product_overview_02.htm
(the picture labeled "Today" at the bottom of the page)

Thank you very much for your help,

Yours, Andrej Falout, http://falout.org/disclaimer.html
Project manager, Aubit project: http://aubit4gl.sf.net
Software architect, MakeTXT.com
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> Regards
> Olaf Japp
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrej Falout" <an...@fa...>
> To: <oj...@sk...>
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 2:17 AM
> Subject: WABclient
>
>
> > Hello Olaf,
> >
> > Few questions about WABclient:
> >
> > 1) Is there a mailing list dedicated to WABclient somewhere?
> >
> > 2) I'm looking for a thin client that could be used with our 4GL
> applications/compiler.
> >
> > Essentially, 4GL application would generate XML/JavaScript as output of
> it's UI statements, and thin client would do the
> > presentation layer part, sending back to the 4GL application user's
> input - menu items selection, user entered data,
> > etc. Then, our application would respond, by sending new UI items to be
> processed to the client. If I understand
> > correctly, our applications would perform the part that you typically do
> using Java servlets.
> >
> > A company called 4Js (www.4js.com) did exactly that with Java thin client
> called JavaFE (AKA CLI-Java)
> >
> > It looks to me that your WABclient might be what we need. But it's not
> clear to me how to pass user actions from the
> > WABclient to the backend?
> >
> > BTW, Aubit 4GL is OpenSource, free, GPL, 4GL compatible compiler. See
> http://aubit4gl.sf.net for more information.
> >
> > Thank you for your time, and your code.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Yours, Andrej Falout, http://falout.org/disclaimer.html
> > Project manager, Aubit project: http://aubit4gl.sf.net
> > Software architect, MakeTXT.com
> > PLEASE NOTE: All HTML email sent to me WILL BE DELETED AUTOMATICALLY
> WITHOUT READING.
> >
> >