At 10:09 AM 11/2/00 -0500, Bakki Kudva wrote:
>I have two slightly offtopic questions.
>
>1. I noticed that SAP - "On October 5, 2000, at Linux World SAP DB was
>announced to be made available as Open Source software using the GNU
>General Public License for the database kernel and the GNU Lesser
>General Public License for clients and programming interfaces." There is
>even a DBD::SAP_DB. I was wondering if anyone has experience using sapdb
>under modperl and would care to share your experiences with it. How does
>it compare to Oracle?
>
>2. Has any one worked on a javascript presentation layer to run under
>modperl where one can create windows, menus, tree widgets etc (like
>Perl/Tk). I know you can use javascript with CGI.pm but I am not sure if
>this is the right place to create presentation layer.
I don't know about your first question. Perhaps you should have broken this
into two threads because I can see the replies getting complicated.
Anyway, for the 2nd question, you correctly realize that while CGI.pm is a
library that can generate javascript tags it is not a library devoted to
auto generation of javascript.
You may want to look at SmartWorker's (www.smartworker.org) widget
generation technology. It's a bit obtuse (IMHO) but it's also pretty cool.
They worked it up to create opendesk (www.opendesk.com) unfortunately, the
cool lookandfeel of open desk and all the nice fancy dHTML virtual desktop
technology is closed source. :(
But it is based on smartworker which is open source and based on mod_perl. :)
Later,
Gunther
