Restful Active4D is a set of libraries that provides yet another way of
developing web applications using Active4D.
It can almost be considered a plug-in to Active4D/fusebox in that it uses
Active4D and fusebox libraries to create an application and development
environment patterned after Ruby on Rails.
I make this announcement with the caveat that this approach may not be useful
to many in the community! I have made a conclusion that the majority of the
Active4D users are just adding a web presence to a 4D client/server
environment. My assumption is that the web presence is mainly shopping-cart
type applications and that most of the management of the database is done in
the client/server environment. Restful Active4D deals mainly with management
type applications. If you have not tried to put management applications on the
web, Restful Active4D may provide you a shortcut way of implementing those
applications.
If you have not tried fusebox, Restful Active4D provides a "generation"
application that will create restful fusebox circuits for existing database
tables. The requirements are: Active4D 4.5, 4D 2004, and tables must have a
unique long integer ID.
The demo is just another version of Aparajita's Active4D demo and is available
at:
<http://iwishicouldwrite.com:8080>
Don't be alarmed by the domain name! There is a short explanation on the demo
home page. The demo is running on my laptop, but should be available most of
the time. The demo provides more details of what Restful Active4D is and how it
works. There is also a screen cast that shows the generation of Active4D's
vendors/ingredients/units demo application from scratch - in about 5 minutes!
I look forward to any feedback.
Steve Alex
P.S. This is beta/proof of concept software - don't expect perfection, just
functionality -- it is also free!
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