[Gllug] Application development across all platforms

[robin.c.smith at bt.com]

If an application can be made into a web application then it should be done
that way as the
cost of deployment/upgrades becomes trivial.

I have become a fan of Tomcat and struts ( these can be found under
http://jakarta.apache.org ),
you will have a big learning curve to learn Java and the struts API.

The downside of using java is that it is proprietary to Sun although it is
currently freely available but
who is going to say that it will always be that way.

Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: Xander D Harkness [mailto:xander at harkness.co.uk]
Sent: 04 January 2002 09:36
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: [Gllug] Application development across all platforms


I have an application, screen shots of which are available at the link
below:

http://www.sportsinjurymanager.co.uk/tour1.html

It is currently written in VB with access holding the data.

I want to web enable it.

The data I plan to stor in a SQL database such as Postgres or Oracle.

The difficulty I have it that the interface is relatively complex and I
do not think would migrate to HTML easily.  

I have seen the interface of Microsofts webmail which beautifully
constructs the outlook interface in a browser. (It works on platforms
other than Microsoft too ;-) Hence it is possible to do complex stuff.

The other alternative is do the interface in java.

I have also been looking at QT too as I read an article describing the
coding of Hancom office in QT.  Allegedly it only took 30 minutes to
alter the windows code to be able to recompile for Linux.  What we could
then do is release multiple interfaces, one for Mac, one for Linux and
one for Windows.  It is not really web enabled though!

As I shall not be programming this but collating alternatives and then
proposing a solution I really would like input from the gathered mass
:-)

I would be very grateful for comments.

Kind regards
Xander


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