Re: [wxperl-users] wxPerl Community project...

[Mike S. <Mik...@Do...>]

Mark Dootson wrote:
> We need a bunch of 'data aware' controls and a common data interface
> that fits with Erics 'Web 3.0' analogy - Prior list postings would
> suggest that much work towards this has been done in some form or
> another. Whether this would end up as a DBI::Web3 or a Web3::Recordset
> type of thing I'm not sure at present. But Wx::DataGrid and Wx::DataCtrl
> are a must.
>   
We (DonorWare) are really close to releasing a whole Wx::Data family of 
code that runs a POE-based HTTP server to your server-side APIs, a 
client side POE::Loop::Wx DataManager, and a basic suite of Wx::Data / 
POE / Async  widgets.  Eriam Schaffter has been on contract for us for 
the past year working on this in 4 phases -- phase 1 was to replicate 
what were already doing, phase 2 was to allow a client to access data on 
the server via a REST-like data path, phase 3 was to allow "push" 
subscriptions to a datapath, as well as "chunking" of large result sets 
to allow a virtual list control to receive very large result sets.  
Phase 4 is next, which is to allow the client to cache data objects for 
specified data paths in "offline" mode to allow the client to continue 
to run (initially just crippled/partially) even when not connected to 
the network (think laptop based travellers).  We also see this approach 
allowing for distributed cache servers (place a cache server in a 
client's offices, and their users will share/access the same local cache 
server, which in turn will be subscribed and receive push updates from 
your central data center).

We have tried to make this all modular and pluggable.  So if you don't 
want your Wx::Data controls to use HTTP API calls, you could plug in a 
Wx::Data::Client::DBI module, etc etc etc.

Anyhow, this has take way longer than we expected to get write, but we 
think it will be worthwhile.  We will be releasing this on CPAN "real 
soon now".

All that to say, I think this *might* fill in some of the Web 3.0 stuff 
-- we deploy clients to Win32, Linux, and OS X.  I think wxPerl's 
cross-platform nature and the ability to distribute/self-update small 
PAR-based code files of perl for updates/changes is the way to give true 
Rich Internet Applications - but I am biased.  Anyhow... we are getting 
close to sharing all this.  Plus, our application is/will be an example 
of a large infrastructure being deployed using wxPerl (hundreds of 
frames, dynamically being built on the fly using server-side meta-data, 
against a server side business logic code base of close to a million 
lines of code).

Sorry this has taken so long to release... :)

Mike.