on 10/4/2000 3:03 PM, "Robert Burrell Donkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I have had some good results from playing around with ECS and servlets in this
> context. You see, the main alternative is not really stuff like turbine etc.
> but
> scripting-hybrids (PHP or any of that microsoft rubbish). They fall down from
> the
> fact that they cannot really take advantage of code-reuse and object-oriented
> code (barring *crippling* installation problems in the case of microsoft IIS).
> It
> would be quite easy to make a good 'data-bound' style library which would
> fetch
> ECS objects from a database. For example, rather than using client-side
> connectivity (ala microsoft) to connect to a server when you click an option
> button on a form, it is very easy to come up with a library that returns an
> ECS
> object from a fetch on the server-side this is then served up when the request
> is
> reached at the server.
So, either using an OO database or storing the serialized ECS byte[]'s in
the database? What purpose would that serve?
> What I've always wondered about is actually the best way to integrate this
> into a
> development framework...
Spend some time with Turbine...we have a very good integration at the core
with ECS...
For example, in my WebMacro template Layout.wm file, I have this:
$page.setBgColor("#ffffff")
on the backend it uses ECS to set the bgcolor of the ECS Body element.
-jon
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