[Typo3-dev] Project proposal: TypoG

[Claudio Romano]

Franz Holzinger wrote:

 > You do not have to implement all the backend modules in the first
 > version of a java client. The support of the PAGE and TEMPLATE module
 > would be a great help, the rest can follow later.

It's clear that such a project should be done step by step and not start 
with whole thing. But if the project should go somewhere where it could 
be heavily used by customers the complexity would be high. As Andreas said:

 > Who said it is going to be easy to get into existing development ;-)
 > After all it is not that hard with some guidance.
100% ACK

 > Why don't you want to use eclipse? Is it possible to program the
 > spring-JAX RPC in PHP, or do you need java on the server side as well?
 >
 > http://www.springframework.org/docs/reference/remoting.html#d0e9485

It's no necessary to use spring jax (have not read to much about jax), 
this is for java to java communication if I’m not wrong. I would suggest 
to use axis as the basis for the client communication. And spring-rcp 
(J2SE) is not the same as springframework(J2EE). Spring-rcp can work 
without the springframwork server.

As of eclipse or spring-rcp, I like the spring-rcp because it focuses on 
innovation that builds on standard Swing, not JFace/AWT. Many people 
still view Swing as "the" widget toolkit to build platform independent 
desktop apps in Java. To date spring-rcp has done a lot of cool things 
integrating Spring's IoC container into a Swing-app environment. The 
result? It's a lot easier to write a clean, concisely coded (and 
well-layered) Swing app, where it was quite easy to write a ugly, 
lengthy coded one before.

I should point out a good many of the issues spring-rcp addressing in 
rich client, for example: data validation, UI-to-domain model binding, 
and command/request workflow aren't really addressed by Eclipse's base 
RCP platform. Also the complexity of the eclipse plugin model is very high.

But at the end I think it is a personal preference as I’m using 
spring-rcp and I get very good results in short time!

 > I think, on the server side only PHP should run and no java.
100% ACK!


Claudio Romano