Moving Rev apps to the web (why isn't this on the horizon?)

[Sadhunathan Nadesan]

I think the thread subject on this is actually about Flash, but here is
the snippet I'm responding to, from Mikey,

     > Ajax, AIR, Flash.  All are ways to make rich internet apps, and all
     > are being accepted as reasonable ways and standards.  So, if RR was
     > going to develop a way to move apps to the web, I would argue that it
     > is far easier to gain acceptance if one uses an established method
     > rather than inventing a new one, unless the new one is so
     > revolutionary that it is simply accepted as the reasonable choice.  I
     > would argue that at this time there is no such method on the horizon
     > for RR.


So basically, my comment is, I wish it _were_ on the horizon.  Wouldn't it
be kewl if we could built a nice rich client app with RR and then either
deploy it as a client in a client server environment, (2 tier) or,
as a web app that ran in a browser, a la Ajax, in a 3 tier architecture?

I say 3 tier because this is how I've seen a few other IDE's do this,
such as Unify's NXj.  I recently saw one called Servoy at the Dr. Dobbs
Software Development Best Practices Conference in Boston.  I made the
comment to Swami that this is what I wish RR were like - it's a strong
database centric approach.  You get a nice IDE that is comparible to
RR but with more database support, and you need an app server also.
Once you build an app you can deploy it as client server or a browser
based app with no additional effort.

Starting with an existing database, I saw them build an application
for add, modify, inquire and delete and deploy in a browser in about
20 seconds.  They showed the client app too, no extra time.

Really!  It looks the same, and works the same, in a browser or as a
desktop program.  The first time you run it in a browser a small client
side (not sure if plugin is the right word) downloads, similar to Flash.

By the way, I believe Andre has built an app server entirely in transcript?

If you care to see Servoy here is my suggestion

Servoy - a Java Development Environment

    Go to www.servoy.com

            Go to the tutorials link

	                Run the "Introduction to Servoy" flash demo

	      This takes about 10 minutes.